Life sentence confirmed for man in fatal stabbing attack on foreigners in Seoul

SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) — An appeals court Friday upheld a life sentence for a man charged in connection with a deadly stabbing attack in Seoul last year that left one person dead. and three others injured.

The Seoul High Court handed down the judgment regarding Cho Seon, 34, who went on a random stabbing rampage near Sillim Station in southwest Seoul in July last year.

A 22-year-old unknown man was stabbed to death, while three other men were injured in the attack.

Cho, who was unknown to all of the victims, initially told investigators that a feeling of inferiority made him want to hurt people who seemed happy, but later claimed that mental and physical disorders were his motivations. crimes.

Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against him.

Cho's series of stabbing attacks, followed by another similar random and deadly stabbing attack in Bundang, south of Seoul, two weeks later, shocked the nation and led to a wave of online posts threatening of copying crimes.