Kratie provincial police are building a legal case against a 23-year-old man for attempting to slit his father’s throat in Snuol district’s Pi Thnou commune on Tuesday.

Deputy provincial police chief Nov Ratana told The Post on Wednesday that the unidentified suspect attacked his father Broem Maly, 61, with a cleaver after he refused to give him 100,000 riel ($25). Ratana said the son is a drug addict.

“He will be sent to court on Thursday. The prosecutor will decide whether to charge him or not,” she said.

District crime bureau chief Nun Roth Neary said Maly and his son are Cambodian Muslims.

“The suspect did not slit the victim’s throat because his older sister stopped him in time. He was furious after his father refused to give him the money he asked for,” he said.

Citing their relatives, Roth Neary said the son always stole and sold valuables from the house for money to buy drugs. Before the incident, he asked Maly for 100,000 riel but did not tell him what he needed it for.

As he attempted to attack Maly out of rage, his sister rushed to grab the cleaver from him before reporting to police.

The son rejected the allegation, saying he only held the cleaver “for fun”.

And though he denied using drugs, a urine test proved otherwise, the district police chief said.