The insurance architect, who was sentenced to imprisonment in the first trial for the death of his wife by crashing a passenger car into the sea for insurance money, was acquitted of murder charges in an appeals court.

The judiciary judged that the vehicle might have accidentally fallen into the sea by mistake, but not on the murder charges, but on the charges of violating the special law (lethal death).

Gwangju High Court Detective Division 2 (Kim Moo-Shin Kim Dong-Wan High Court Judge Gwang-Ha Wih) said on the 22nd that he was going to destroy centrifuges and face a three-year vault in the appeal of Mr. Park (52), charged with murder and car sales.

Park was indicted on December 31, 2018 at 10 pm at a dock in Geumo-do, Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, for killing his wife, Kim Mo (47 at the time of death), along with a Genesis car, to crash into the sea.

Park, who was staying at the dock with his wife, pulled back from the driver's seat saying he was checking the car condition by hitting a railing to prevent fall.

In a police investigation, Park was accused of pushing a car whose gear was neutral and dropping it into the sea.

In a police investigation, Park stated, "The car crashed into the sea momentarily and could not save my wife."

However, Yeosu Coast Guard and the prosecution were based on the fact that the vehicle gear was neutral, the rear seat window was lowered by about 7cm, and six insurances worth 1.7 billion won were received in the name of the wife, and the name of the beneficiary was changed to Park after the marriage report. Charged with murder.

The prosecution asked Park for the death penalty, and the trial court sentenced him to imprisonment for guilty of extremely poor guilt, using precious life as a tool for receiving insurance to solve economic problems.

However, through the on-site verification, the Court of Appeals judged the murder charges innocent, saying that even if Mr. Park did not push the car, there was a possibility that the car would roll due to movement inside the vehicle.

When the test vehicle was placed in a neutral gear position at a distance of 0.5m from the fall guard rail, the vehicle did not move even when the passenger in the passenger seat moved, but as soon as the driver was released at a distance of 1.5m, the vehicle descended along the slope.

At a distance of 1 to 1.2 m from the railing, the passenger car of the passenger seat moved once, and the experimental vehicle descended along the slope.

The court of appeals said, "The evidence presented by the prosecutor alone is hard to admit that the car crashed into the sea because of the push, and there is no other evidence."

The judge said, "It is possible that the wife in the passenger seat was about to check the situation. At this time, the possibility that the car moved as the center of gravity of the vehicle moved forward could not be ruled out."

If Park deliberately tried to murder his wife, he had to make a plan to delay the escape time, but he said the car door was not locked at the time.

The Ministry of Justice said, “There were financial difficulties, such as debts worth 120 million won, but in 2017, we received an individual rehabilitation decision and paid 300,000 won each month, and the income was constant, so the situation was so urgent to seek an extreme solution to murder. No, "he added.

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