A police officer who threatened to "die" before his girlfriend made an extreme choice was put on trial with detention.



The Incheon District Prosecutor's Office for Violent Crimes (Prosecutor Shin Jun-ho) announced today (7th) that they had arrested and indicted a 46-year-old Inspector A (46) belonging to the Incheon Police Station on charges of intimidating and teaching suicide.



Inspector A is accused of intimidating B (46 years old at the time of her death), her lover, in the early morning hours of November 2, last year, so that she took her own life.



During a three-hour phone conversation with Mr. B, who asked to break up, he threatened, "I will use all of my police contacts to criminally punish your son and ruin your future, and also conduct a tax investigation on your job and make him sit on the street."



Inspector A was then investigated for saying to Mr. B, who was frightened, "I will spare your son, so you have to hang yourself and make an extreme choice."



In fact, B was found dead after making an extreme choice in a villa in Gajeong-dong, Seo-gu, Incheon at around 8:30 am on the same day.



Inspector A found Mr. B dead after returning home from work at around 8 am after working the night shift and reported it to 112.



The police immediately arrested Inspector A and applied for an arrest warrant, but the court rejected it in November last year, saying, "It is difficult to recognize the reason for arrest, and the emergency arrest (by the police) was also illegal."



When the police sent Inspector A without detention, the prosecution conducted supplementary investigations such as investigating the victim's bereaved family and acquaintances as a witness, and confiscating and searching the home of Inspector A.



Inspector A is said to have completely denied the causal relationship between his intimidation and extreme choice during the prosecution's investigation.



However, the prosecution judged that Inspector A made an extreme choice in the end, as Inspector A caused extreme fear and psychologically pressured him.



A prosecution official said, "The suspect, as an incumbent police officer, showed off his social status and personal connections to the victim who raised his son alone after divorce and threatened him, and made him make an extreme choice." said.



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