Choi In-cheol (left) and Jang Dong-ik, who were convicted of retrial in the Busan District Court on the 4th after being imprisoned for 21 years for false confession by a police adviser, are holding a press conference. Reporter Song Bong-geun
Two victims of the’Nakdong Riverside Murder Case’, who had been imprisoned for 21 years while being accused of murder because of not being beaten by police torture, were acquitted after 31 years at retrial. Attorney Park Joon-young, who was in charge of their defense, told the story of Dong-Ik Jang (63)’s mother, saying, “It was the mother who opened the way for the son of Gearko.”
According to attorney Park on the 4th, Jang’s mother visited the three-joint monk who had been working to rescue death row inmates at every court meeting. My mother complained, “Our Dong-ik, who was born as a child of a poor farmer’s house, is living in prison for murder,” and said, “We tortured our innocent Dong-ik at the police station day and night.” He covered his eyes with tape, covered his mouth with a towel, and then took off his jacket, put his upper body in handcuffs, hung it downward, and was tortured by water. The monk Samjung, who could not turn away from her mother’s appeal, worked hard to inform people of Jang’s resentment.
Then Jang’s mother became famous for cancer in November 2003. The mother left the record of the case as a legacy with the will, “I will reveal my child’s resentment even if I die.” Jang, who was released 10 years later, took this record to visit lawyer Park, and was finally acquitted after 31 years.
The 1st Criminal Division of the Busan High Court (Director Byungsoo Kwak) sentenced Jang and Choi In-cheol (60) to the charges of robbery and murder. The judge said, “The police’s arrest process was illegal without a warrant, and confession made through torture and harsh acts is not guilty because of lack of evidence.”
The Nakdong Riverside murder case is a case where a man and a woman who were dating in a car along the Nakdong River were kidnapped by gangsters on January 4, 1990, and a woman was raped and then killed, and a man injured. Choi and Jang were arrested by the police as murder suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment, served 21 years, and were released as model prisoners in 2013.
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