A Nigerian businessman based in Southern Asia, Kingsley Nshiodo has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for beating up his girlfriend and threatening to stab her after she refused to have sex with him last year.

Confirming his arrest, the District penal police officer Ly Rithy, disclosed that Nshiodo was arrested by police in the early hours of December 28 2015, in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district after his girlfriend, 19-year-old waitress Chan Sreyneang contacted police complaining that her boyfriend had beaten and threatened to stab her after she had gone to visit him at the apartment they shared in Toul Kork village after a recent falling out.

According to the Judge Yen Saroreun, 34-year old Nshiodo have half of his sentence reduced but will be fined about $1, 000 to the state budget after being charged with an act of violence with aggravating circumstances under article 218, of the penal code.

He said: “The court convicted him to two years, but the term of his punishment is reduced to a year. The rest of his sentence was suspended. The court fines him 4 million riel [about $1, 000] to put toward the state budget.”