JUDGMENT IN MURDER TRIAL OF SOUTH KOREA FERRY CAPTAIN -------------------------------------- After five months of dramatic, often painful testimony, a South Korean court Tuesday will deliver its verdict - and possible death sentence - on the ferry captain at the centre of one of the countrys worst peacetime disasters. Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for Lee Jun-seok, 69, after a trial that branded him an unrepentant liar who knowingly left some 300 passengers to die. When the trial wrapped up late last month, Lee said he had committed a crime for which I deserve to die but strenuously denied that he had ever intended to sacrifice the lives of the passengers. Speaking at the end of the trial last month, Lee acknowledged that he had been paralyzed by panic and failed to take appropriate measures that could have saved lives. But I swear from my heart that there was never any intention to murder, he said.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:10:29 +0000
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