Court Sentences Man in His 50s to 15 Years in Prison for Killing Vietnamese Wife and Abandoning Body

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[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin] A man in his 50s who was tried for stabbing his Vietnamese wife to death with a weapon and disposing of her body was sentenced to a heavy prison term.

The Criminal Division 11 of Uijeongbu District Court (Presiding Judge Kang Dong-hyuk) sentenced Shin Mo (57), who was indicted and detained on charges of murder and corpse disposal, to 15 years in prison on the 23rd.

The court stated, "Murder is a crime that infringes on the irreplaceable right to life and cannot be tolerated," adding, "The defendant brutally killed the victim, and given the severity of the crime, a corresponding punishment is necessary."

It further added, "However, considering that frequent quarrels due to a hasty international marriage without love seem to be one cause of the crime, that the crime appears to have been committed impulsively during an argument, and that the victim's family has reached a settlement."

Shin is accused of stabbing his Vietnamese wife A (30) multiple times with a weapon in the early morning of November 16 last year at his home in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province.

He is also charged with loading A's body into a car and secretly burying it in a field near an orchard in Wanju, Jeonbuk, her hometown.

Shin, who married A in Vietnam in 2017, is known to have returned to Korea three months before the crime.

Investigations revealed that the couple had frequent conflicts due to communication difficulties caused by language differences and economic problems.

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