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23 years ago, a female college student was hit by a truck and died on a highway in Daegu.
It was suspected that the damage was not a simple traffic accident, but the sexual assault, but the police investigation was poor, so that the suspect was not properly punished.
Today (2nd), the court ruled that the family should be compensated by the state.
This is Jung Yoon-sik.
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In October 1998, a college student, Jeong Mo, was found dead on a highway in Daegu.
The police concluded that the car accident was killed by a truck.
However, after relentless demands from the family who discovered the suspected clues of sexual assault, a noodle test was conducted, and the DNA of a man was found in Jung's undergarment, who died.
It was 13 years later that a suspect matching that DNA was caught.
The prosecutor who captured Mr. K, who was Sri Lankan, sought life imprisonment after 15 years, but Mr. K was found acquitted for the ending of the statute of prosecution and left for Sri Lanka.
In response, the bereaved family filed a lawsuit asking for the responsibility of the state, and the court raised the hand of the bereaved family.
It was clear that the family had suffered mental pain for a long time due to the poor initial investigation, and decided to pay 20 million won each to parents and 5 million won each to siblings.
The compensation amount plus delayed damages is about 130 million won.
[Park Hye-rim/Seoul Central District Court Civil Public Affairs Judge: Judging from a simple traffic accident, this is a ruling that acknowledged the responsibility of the state for compensation for the poor initial investigation.] After
23 years, the state's responsibility was recognized, but the grief of the family has changed. There is not.
[Jeong Hyeon-jo / Victim's father: (Daughter) I want to see you. What is that... Ok… Oh, I can't even say it.] The
court just did not accept the family's claim for the income that Mr. Jeong could have earned if he was alive.
(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Park Player)