“The strong people didn’t apologize… Jinbeom also said sorry.”
At 2:15 pm on the 28th when the wind blew. This is the story of the victim and surviving family member Choi Seong-ja, 56, in front of the court, after a ruling in the lawsuit for compensation for damages in the Samrye Nara Super Case. Choi held the microphone with both hands and said, “It seems like we have fought for about 20 years, but today is the last day.” “I cried so much so far, but I hope this painful story will disappear in Korea.”
Court verdicts compensation for victims accused of “Samrye Nara Super Case”
On this day, the 37th Division of the Civil Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court (President Judge Park Seok-geun) was convicted of three people, including Choi Sang-yeol (42), Myung-seon (42), and Kang In-gu (41), who flocked to the country as the culprit of the Samrye Nara Super Robbery In a lawsuit for damages filed against lawyer Choi Mo, an investigative prosecutor at the time, he ruled that “the state should pay 320 million to 470 million won per person”. To the family who filed the lawsuit together, he said, “The state should pay 10 to 130 million won per person.” 20% of the total compensation was paid by lawyer Choi. Attorney Choi also dismissed all counterclaims filed against the victim.
Following the’Yakchon 5-geori Murder Case’ in which a victim who was also accused of being imprisoned, attorney Park Joon-young, who acted for compensation for damages in the Samrye case, ended the trial and said, “Free the real offender who even confessed, and the poor and powerless people are unfairly jailed. It shouldn’t happen again,” he said. Choi Soo-young, the victim’s older sister, said in a crying voice, “I hope that unfair people like us will never come out again.” “I have suffered so much so far, but it would have been nice if my mother and father saw this day today.”
Apology for attending the Samrye case
Aunt Jinbeom in the Samrye case also attended the meeting and said, “It’s a life I have to repent and live, but I still feel bad when I see the victim who lived in prison instead of me.” Lee is a person who confessed about the crime when the prosecution was not accused of the case. Even when the victims’ families asked for a reconsideration, they also stood at the witness stand saying, “It is true that they committed the crime.” Attorney Park said, “The reason Lee was able to come to the table was because the victims’ families forgiven them.”
Choi Seong-ja, a victim, is expressing his feelings at the Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the afternoon of the 28th when a ruling was issued to pay compensation for damages to those who were unjustly jailed in the so-called “three rye trio” robbery case. News 1
Park Seong-woo (58), the son-in-law of the victim of the Samrye case, looked at Lee standing next to him and said, “I’m a murderer, but I’d like to express my gratitude for helping us by coming out with such a difficult trial.” “I forgave me”. “Is there an ironic novel that reveals the position of the victim, the victim’s family, the fake criminal, and the real criminal?” He said, “I hope there will be no such novel in Korea next time.
What is the Samrye Nara Super case?
In the’Samrye Nara Super Incident’ in February 1999, three people invaded Nara Super, Samrye-eup, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, and killed an elderly nanny in her 70s, who is the homeowner, with tape. At the time, the police arrested three people with intellectual disabilities (three cases of three), and were confessed and arrested. Each of them was sentenced to three to six years in prison and served in prison. Subsequently, the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office, who received information that the real criminal was separate, arrested three suspects, but did not directly handle the case and transferred the three people to the Jeonju District Prosecutors’ Office.
Samrye Nara Super Incident.
At the time, lawyer Choi, who investigated the case under the Jeonju District Prosecutor’s Office, was charged with saying that the suspect’s confession was unreliable. The three members of Samrye, who were released from prison after their sentence was confirmed, filed a request for retrial to the court. At the court, Mr. Lee, one of the three suspects, appeared and declared conscience that he was the real offender. Thus, in 2016, the three members of Samrye were acquitted at a retrial. It is said to have been framed 17 years after the incident. This case was also the subject of director Jung Ji-young’s film’Boys’, which began filming in June of last year.
Afterwards, the three members of Samrye and the families of the victims filed a lawsuit the following year against the state and attorney Choi, who was then an investigative prosecutor. It was intended to compensate for economic and mental damage as much as he was imprisoned. However, attorney Choi filed a counter suit to compensate for 30 million won, saying that the three members of Samrye and attorney Park, who acted on behalf of the lawsuit, had rather damaged his honor. Attorney Park said, “I was embarrassed because I denied responsibility because I was not enough not to admit the wrong.”
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