A 17-year-old discovered too late that forgiving and forgetting aren’t commonly pillars of the criminal justice system.

While living in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district in 2012, the teen shot a man and robbed of him his moto, then successfully escaped to Svay Rieng.

When the thief returned to his rental home in the capital yesterday, police had a warrant waiting. KOH SANTEPHEAP