Ex-comic magazine editor gets 11-year prison term for killing wife

Japan Today -- Mar 07

The former deputy editor of a popular Kodansha Ltd comic magazine was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for killing his wife in 2016.

The Tokyo District Court ruled that Pak Jong Hyon, 43, strangled his wife to death in a bedroom of their Tokyo home. Pak had claimed she committed suicide.

In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Minoru Morishita said Pak's act was "malicious." But his motive for killing her remains unclear.

After the sentence was read out, Pak shouted, "I didn't do it," and the judge told him to sit down.

Prosecutors had sought a 15-year prison term, claiming Pak clearly intended to kill her.

Mar 07 (ANNnewsCH) - 2016年に東京・文京区の自宅で妻を殺害した罪に問われた講談社社員の男への裁判員裁判で、東京地裁は懲役11年の判決を言い渡しました。