SEOUL– A 41-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for brutally killing one of his employees by inserting a 70-centimeter rod into the victim’s rectum.
The Seoul Western District Court found the man, only identified by his surname Han, guilty of murdering the employee at a children’s gym in Seoul with the plastic stick, which ruptured his organs and caused his death in December of last year.
“Severe punishment is inevitable as his crime is bizarre and brutal, and he did not have any kind of respect for the victim,” the court said in the ruling.
The prosecution earlier sought a life sentence for Han.
Han killed the victim in his 20s at the facility he owns in northwestern Seoul on Dec. 31, after being irritated by the employee’s unspecified behavior.
An autopsy showed a perforation in the anterior wall of the victim’s rectum and further ruptures in organs, including the heart and the liver.
Source: Yonhap News Agency