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Yoon Seong-yeo, who had been imprisoned for 20 years after being convicted of the 8th serial murder of Lee Chun-jae, was acquitted at a retrial.

The retrial judge apologized for failing to fulfill its role by the judiciary, which should be the last bastion of human rights.



This is Kim Sang-min.



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[Will the defendant get up for a while?

The accused is not guilty.

I will finish the retrial trial above.] When



Yoon Seong-yeo, who had been imprisoned for 20 years in the 8th Hwaseong murder case, was sentenced to innocence, applause broke out in the courtroom.



It has been about a year since the reconsideration began with Lee Chun-jae's confession.



In 1988, the police, who had a hard time investigating the murder of a middle school girl, pointed out a young man in the village as a suspect the following year.



After over 70 hours of illegal imprisonment, sleep imprisonment or cruelty such as squatting, he received false confession.



Yun, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at the first trial, denied the charges at the higher trial, and appealed for resentment, but was not accepted.



The retrial judge decided that the confession of Mr. Yun was subjected to abusive acts while being illegally arrested and confined, and that the results of the body hair analysis of the Gussetus adopted as evidence at the time were also unreliable.



In addition, I thought that Lee Chun-jae's confession statement was specific, so it was highly reliable.



The judge apologized on behalf of the judiciary.



[Judge Park Jeong-je/Retrial Judge (President Judge of Suwon District Law): As a member of the judiciary, I apologize for the fact that the court failed to properly implement its role as the last bastion of human rights.]



Yoon expressed his

regret

with a calm expression. .



[Seong-yeo Yoon/Applicant for retrial: I just hope that no one like me will come out, and I want all fair trials to be made.]



Mr. Yoon's lawyers said they welcomed the decision of retrial. He said he would go to a lawsuit for damages against the country to ask for responsibility.



(Video coverage: Kim Myung-gu, video editing: Kim Jong-tae)