A 27-year-old man was left red-faced this week when the web of lies he spun to police untangled. The man told police in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district that his car had been snatched.

But when police investigated they discovered that after losing money gambling, the man had sold the car. He pretended the car had been stolen to hide his bad behaviour from his wife.

But after confessing to police, he was left with no choice but to come clean to her. KOH SANTEPHEAP