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Victim declines to press charges
A man in his 50s who broke into a friend’s home and rampaged with a wooden sword after learning the friend had spoken with his ex-wife was given a suspended prison sentence.
On March 30, Judge Jeong Jong-geon of Criminal Division 1 at the Chuncheon District Court sentenced A, 55, to six months in prison, suspended for two years, on charges of special residential intrusion and special property damage.
The court noted that the defendant has a prior record of violent offenses and that unlawfully entering another person’s home and damaging property are serious crimes. It imposed a suspended sentence after taking into account that the victim did not want the defendant prosecuted.
A was indicted on charges that in June of last year he entered his friend B’s residence and swung a roughly 1-meter (about 3.3 ft) wooden sword, damaging the front storm door, the living room and a small bedroom window, and destroying crops in the front yard. Investigators also found he threw stones and broke four additional panes of glass.
Investigators concluded A carried out the attack after becoming enraged that B had spoken with his ex-wife.
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