Wed May 07 2008ITN
A former Khmer Rouge soldier has been arrested and charged with the murder of a Briton more than a decade ago.
Sin Dorn, 52, was formally charged with the abduction and premeditated murder of Christopher Howes of UK-based charity Mines Advisory Group in the northern province of Siem Reap in 1996. His Cambodian translator was also killed.
Judge Ke Sakhan said: "The authorities were searching for him for several years, but couldn't find him. We finally arrested him and have thrown him in jail."
Sin Dorn is the fourth Khmer Rouge soldier to be arrested in connection with the murder.
He was found in the north of the country near the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Along Veng where Pol Pot died.
The murder at the hand's of Pol Pot's communist guerrillas shocked most Cambodians, and a street in the capital Phnom Penh has since been named in Mr Howes's honour.
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