A teenager has finally received his sentence for stabbing and assaulting a friend after an argument while drinking.
According to the legal community on the 19th, the assailant (18), who was indicted for murder, submitted an appeal through his attorney on the 4th to seek the Supreme Court’s judgment, but withdrew the appeal and accepted the 2nd trial sentence of a long-term imprisonment of 10 years and a short-term of 5 years on the 13th.
As there was no appeal from the prosecution, the sentence for the assailant was confirmed.
The assailant was handed over to trial on charges of killing his friend (16) in a fit of rage during an argument in an above-ground parking lot of an apartment in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province, around 7:30 a.m. on February 26 last year, where he stabbed him with a weapon he had prepared in advance.
The assailant had a physical altercation with the friend he murdered and other friends at a bar around 5 a.m. that day when the friend who was murdered protested, “You touched my girlfriend.” After the physical altercation, the assailant followed his friend home and murdered him.
The first trial court ruled, “The unfulfilled intent to murder is recognized, and despite the victim, who was stabbed with a weapon, begging for his life, he was beaten to the point where his head and face were submerged,” but “considering that he was just a 17-year-old boy and a first-time offender with no particular criminal record,” he was sentenced to a long term of 10 years and a short term of 5 years in prison.
Both the prosecution and the assailant appealed on the grounds of unfair sentencing, but the second trial court dismissed both appeals, stating, “The original sentence, which considered all factors such as the fact that he was an immature boy of 16 at the time of the crime, a considerable amount of money deposited to the victim’s family, and the petition of victim’s family for severe punishment, is just.”