A 20-year-old man in his twenties who inflicted permanent damage to a friend by blowing a martial arts technique that strikes an opponent with his knees, was sentenced to twice the sentence of the appeal.
On the 26th, the Incheon District Court Criminal Affairs Division 1-2 (presiding judge Ko Seung-il) announced that the court case sentenced to a 24-year-old A, who was charged with serious injury, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison and sentenced him to 3 years in prison.
Mr. A is accused of assaulting his friend B on a street in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon on October 12, 2019 at around 2:15 am and causing serious injury.
At that time, the two of them drank until dawn with their friends, after making an appointment to see them again in a few hours, they broke up. However, when Mr. B did not show up at the appointed time, Mr. A became angry by sending a text message, and when Mr. B swung his fist at the meeting again, he committed a crime.
Mr. A grabbed Mr. B’s shoulder with his head down with both hands, hit his face 10 times with his knees, and knocked Mr. B down by wrapping his neck with his arm from behind. Mr. B received hospital treatment for internal carotid artery damage and cerebral infarction, but was diagnosed with severe permanent disability, such as speech impairment and right hemiplegia.
In August of last year, the first trial court sentenced Mr. A to a prison sentence of 1 year and 6 months in prison, taking into account the crime and the degree of injury the victim suffered.
Then, Mr. A appealed, claiming that “Mr. B first assaulted and did it as a defense.”
However, the Court of Appeal sentenced Mr. A to three years in prison, twice as high as the lower court sentenced to one year and six months in prison.
The Court of Appeals judged that “although the fight started with the victim’s assault, the defendant’s actions at the time were not to defend against the victim’s unfair attacks, but to fight against each other with the intention of attacking each other.”
Furthermore, “the defendant’s method of assault was quite cruel,” he explained. “The victim, who was 22 at the time, suffered severe permanent disability, and he suffered great mental pain, such as frustrating this situation and attempting to make extreme choices.”
In addition, he stated the reason for the sentence, saying, “The accused does not attempt to recover civil or criminal damage at all using the attitude of the victim’s family as an excuse.”
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