The court judged that Lee Jae-myung, the head of the Democratic Party of Korea, was not responsible for compensating the bereaved family for referring to the murder of his nephew in the past as 'dating violence'.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled today (12th) that the victim's father, Mr. A, dismissed the plaintiff's claim in a claim for damages filed against CEO Lee, and that the plaintiff bear the cost of the lawsuit.
Representative Lee used the expression 'dating violence felony' in the process of explaining how he was in charge of defending the murder case of his nephew Kim Mo during the last presidential election, and the bereaved family claimed damages, saying that they suffered mental pain by referring to the murder case as dating violence. charged.
Mr. Kim, the nephew of CEO Lee, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of stabbing and killing her girlfriend and his mother 37 times in 2006 when his girlfriend asked to break up with him.
Representative Lee apologized to the bereaved family through a litigation agent in the course of the trial for damages, but said, "The remarks at the time were not 'dating violence' but 'dating violence felony', and the case was never distorted, and defamation was not established." I have claimed.
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