This undated file photo, provided by the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, shows Jung Yoo-jung. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
BUSAN, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Jung Yoo-jung, a psychopathic murder suspect who stunned the nation in May for killing a stranger just out of curiosity about murder, was sentenced to life in prison by a district court in the southeastern city of Busan on Friday.
The Busan District Court handed down the life imprisonment sentence to Jung, dismissing her claim that she was in a state of mental and physical disorder at the time of her crime.
The 23-year-old Jung was arrested on charges of killing a female freelance tutor, with whom she had no personal connection, with a weapon at the latter’s home in Busan’s Geumjeong district on May 26, dismembering the victim’s body and dumping some of the body parts in a riverside bush in Yangsan, just north of Busan.
Her arrest came after police were tipped off by a taxi driver who took the suspect to Yangsan and found it strange that she dumped a bloodstained suitcase in the woods. The woman, who showed an abnormal psychopathy index in police tests, triggered social resentment after she confessed that she killed the victim just out of her curiosity about murder.
Jung, who met the victim through an app specialized in matching private tutors with students and parents, was later found to have attempted to meet two other persons via the same app.
Prosecutors demanded a death sentence for Jung in the previous hearing, while she asked the court to reduce her sentence, citing her mental and physical disorder.
(Yonhap)
