A person reenacts the crime scene the place he pushed his spouse into the ocean and killed her by throwing stones on Jamjin Island, Incheon, in July, 2023. Newsis
By KTimes
The Supreme Court docket upheld a 28-year jail sentence, Thursday, for a person in his 30s who was placed on trial for killing his spouse by throwing her into the ocean and hurling stones at her throughout a fishing journey.
The 31-year-old husband surnamed Park was indicted for murdering his spouse, recognized as A, final July whereas they had been fishing on Jamjin Island in Incheon. He pushed her into the ocean and threw stones at her.
An investigation revealed that Park had meticulously deliberate the crime, researching tide schedules prematurely and factoring in climate situations and water depth to stage the homicide as an unintended fall.
Park married A in 2020 however started harboring resentment after she found his affair that very same 12 months and continued to confront him about it. Final July, when he discovered throughout a visit to Jamjin Island that his spouse had bought a luxurious purse, he determined he may not keep within the marriage and resolved to kill her.
A decrease courtroom sentenced Park to 23 years in jail. The appellate courtroom elevated the sentence to twenty-eight years.
In its ruling, the appellate courtroom acknowledged, “Regardless of the sufferer’s pleas in the course of the crime, the defendant didn’t cease and continued throwing stones. Finally, he lifted a big stone and threw it on the sufferer’s head, ensuing within the homicide.”
The courtroom additional condemned the act, stating, “The strategy of the crime was extraordinarily brutal.” It additionally highlighted Park’s try to cowl up the crime by sending messages as if he had been looking for the sufferer, in an effort to disguise the homicide as an unintended loss of life and destroy proof.
Though Park paid 36 million gained ($27,000) to the sufferer’s mother and father, the courtroom famous that he had failed to achieve a full settlement with the household. The appellate courtroom stated, “Given the severity of the crime and the hurt brought on, it’s troublesome to think about the cost as grounds for a diminished sentence.”
The Supreme Court docket affirmed the choice, rejecting Park’s closing attraction, stating, “It can’t be stated that the 28-year sentence imposed by the decrease courtroom is excessively unjust.”
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, a sister publication of The Korea Instances, is translated by a generative AI and edited by The Korea Instances.
