[Breaking] Life Sentence Confirmed for Jeon Juhwan in 'Sindang Station Stalking Murder' Case

Jeon Joo-hwan (32, male), a coworker and the suspect who stalked and murdered a station attendant at Sindang Station, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Supreme Court's 3rd Division (Presiding Justice Noh Jung-hee) on the morning of the 12th upheld the lower court's ruling sentencing Jeon Joo-hwan to life imprisonment by dismissing all of his appeals in the final hearing for charges including violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes (retaliatory murder), violation of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (coercion using filmed materials), and violation of the Stalking Punishment Act.

The court stated the reason for dismissing the appeal, saying, "Considering various sentencing factors such as the defendant's age, character, environment, relationship with the victim, motives, methods and results of each crime in this case, and circumstances after the crimes, even when taking into account favorable circumstances for the defendant, it cannot be said that the lower court's sentence of life imprisonment is grossly unjust."

Jeon Joo-hwan is accused of continuously stalking a female victim in her 20s, whom he met as a coworker at Seoul Metro in 2019, and threatening her by illegally filming her. Furthermore, when the trial date for the stalking and illegal filming charges, for which he was indicted following the victim's report, was set and a prison sentence was expected, he is accused of retaliatory murder with a weapon on September 14 last year at the victim's workplace, Sindang Station on Seoul Subway Line 2, in the women's restroom, driven by the thought that "everything he had built up until now would collapse."

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