An elderly mother is nursing a broken hip after her scoundrel of a son shoved her to the ground on Tuesday.

Police in Kampong Cham’s Cheung Prey district said the suspect was a drug addict who became enraged when his mother refused to cough up money to support his habit.

Neighbours intervened, sending the injured woman to hospital and the son fleeing into the wild. Police caught up to him the next day. Deum ampil