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A 30-year-old man who grabbed his girlfriend's hair and beat him in the face and body to death by falling down the stairs has also been sentenced to death by an appeals court.
The assault started when he dragged clothes he had to return to the floor.
The Seoul High Court Chuncheon Tribunal's Criminal Division 1 (Chief Judge Hwang Seung-tae) dismissed the appeal filed by A (31), a man charged with murder and murder, and sentenced him to four years in prison, the same as the original trial.
On April 10, last year, at around 2:05 am, in front of the front door of an apartment in Chuncheon, where girlfriend B lived, Mr. A grabbed Mr. B's hair and beat him to the face and body several times, and was charged with hitting the floor under the stairs and killing him. was charged with
Person A committed the crime while arguing and fighting because Mr. B dragged the clothes that should be returned to him on the floor.
Mr. A admitted to the fact that he had an argument with the first trial judge, but he denied the crime, saying that the fight had calmed down when Mr. B fell down the stairs, and that she did not force him to fall by assault.
However, the judgment of the trial court was different.
The fact that Mr. A was assaulted, as well as the cause of Mr. B falling down the stairs, was that he did not overcome the power of Mr. A's assault.
When he was sentenced to 4 years in prison, Mr. A appealed against the verdict, but nothing changed.
The court of appeals judged that "the trial court's judgment was just as a result of reviewing the evidence investigated by the original court, the results of the fact inquiry reply, the contents of the autopsy report, and the possibility presented by the defense counsel."
Then, "there was no meaningful change in circumstances to change the sentence," and the same sentence as the original trial was confirmed for four years.