'Revenge Murder' Lee Seok-jun Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in Second Trial

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] Lee Seokjun (26), who killed the family of a woman under police protection, was sentenced to life imprisonment again in the appellate court.

On the afternoon of the 15th, the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 9 (Presiding Judges Moon Gwangseop, Park Youngwook, Hwang Seongmi) sentenced Lee Seokjun, who was charged with retaliatory murder under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes and violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, to life imprisonment, the same as the first trial. He was also ordered to complete an 80-hour sexual violence treatment program and was banned from employment at child and disability-related institutions for 10 years.

The first trial sentenced Lee Seokjun to life imprisonment, stating that it was necessary to permanently isolate him from society, but considered that the death penalty is an extremely exceptional punishment that permanently deprives life. The prosecution had demanded the death penalty, arguing that Lee calmly carried out the crime, killing the victim’s mother with a single stab of a weapon.

Lee Seokjun was brought to trial on charges of loading a stun gun and a weapon into a rental car, posing as a delivery driver, visiting the victim woman’s house on December 10 last year, killing the victim’s mother, and wielding a weapon against the then 13-year-old younger brother.

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