Court Reduces Sentence in Appeal of 50-Year-Old Who Stabbed Elder Brother to Death with a Knife in Broad Daylight

Prison Sentence Reduced from 30 Years to 25 Years

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin] A man in his 50s who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the first trial for stabbing his older brother to death with a weapon in a cafe in broad daylight received a reduced sentence in the appeal trial.

The Criminal Division 3 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judges Bae Jun-hyun, Pyo Hyun-deok, Kim Gyu-dong) sentenced A, who was charged with murder and other offenses, to 25 years in prison on the 26th.

The court considered that unlike the first trial, A admitted to the crime in the appeal trial, and although he had received psychiatric treatment in the past, it seemed that the treatment was not properly carried out. Therefore, even though the method of the crime was brutal and no agreement was reached with the bereaved family, the court judged that the sentence in the first trial was excessively heavy.

A was arrested and indicted on charges of stabbing his brother B (58) more than 10 times with a weapon he had prepared in advance at a cafe in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, at 12:06 p.m. on June 7 last year, resulting in B's death.

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