{"id":43130,"date":"2019-12-11T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43130"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:49:36","slug":"man-faces-life-prison-after-spiking-relatives-soup-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/man-faces-life-prison-after-spiking-relatives-soup-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces life in prison after spiking relative&#8217;s soup with poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A North Korean man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering the husband of his sister-in-law. The convicted man was discovered to have spiked the victim\u2019s soup with rat poison after discovering that he had sexually assaulted the assailant\u2019s own wife on a sustained basis over a period of several years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source from North Hamgyong Province reported the case to Daily NK on December 9, explaining that the man was an agricultural worker in his 30s living with his wife in Myongchon County. Myongchon County is an agricultural region southwest of the provincial capital, Chongjin. It lays due east of North Korea\u2019s nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The murder happened when, having been married for three years, the man learned that his wife had been suffering sexual abuse at the hands of the husband of her elder sister.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It reportedly emerged during the trial that the sexual abuse had been going on since before the couple were married. The woman fell pregnant at least once during this period, necessitating an abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43131\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c.jpg\" alt=\"criminal court\" width=\"1000\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c-696x443.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ubd81\ud55c-\ucd5c\uace0-\uc7ac\ud310\uc18c-660x420.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of a North Korean criminal court. \/ Image: Yonhap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe husband could not control his anger at this,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe seems to have thought that murdering the culprit would be the only way to protect his family. So, in the middle of September he invited the sister-in-law\u2019s family to have dinner together, put rat poison in the man\u2019s soup and killed him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The murdered man is said to have complained of severe stomach pains and was taken to hospital. However, he collapsed foaming at the mouth and never recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suspicious about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, the elder sister asked the local police station to investigate the case. When an autopsy revealed the use of rat poison, suspicion fell upon those who had been eating dinner immediately before the death, and in due course the culprit was revealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sentencing the assailant at the beginning of December, the court noted that the murder victim had also been guilty of a crime, but that this was insufficient in itself to excuse an act of premeditated murder. The court handed down a sentence of life imprisonment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Chris Green<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering the husband of his sister-in-law. 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