SEOUL - A South Korean court sentenced a man to life in prison on Tuesday for murdering a woman he had stalked for years. The Seoul High Court sentenced 32-year-old Jeon Joo-hwan for killing a former colleague in revenge after the victim reported him to police for...
SEOUL - A South Korean court sentenced a man to life in prison on Tuesday for murdering a woman he had stalked for years.
The Seoul High Court sentenced 32-year-old Jeon Joo-hwan for killing a former colleague in revenge after the victim reported him to police for stalking. Over nearly two years, Jeon followed and threatened the woman on more than 300 separate occasions but was never detained, despite her filing repeated complaints, as police deemed him “low risk”.he stabbed the woman to deathJeon reportedly told investigators that he had been angered by the legal problems his victim had caused him.
He had been fired from his job at the Seoul Metro – where the woman also worked – after she first reported him for stalking.
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