This photo, provided by the Gangwon Provincial Police, shows the identity and mug shot of 38-year-old Yang Kwang-jun accused of killing and dismembering the body of a fellow military employee, Nov. 13, 2024. Yonhap
A local court on Thursday sentenced a former Army officer to life in prison for killing and dismembering a woman, who was a fellow military employee whom he had an affair with, for fear of disclosing their relationship.
The Chuncheon District Court handed out a life sentence for Yang Kwang-jun on charges of murder, dismemberment, and concealing of body.
Yang, 38, who was an Army lieutenant colonel, is accused of allegedly strangling the victim to death during a wrangle in his car at their unit's parking lot on Oct. 25.
He is also charged with dismembering and abandoning the victim's body in a river in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, 88 kilometers northeast of the capital, the next day.
The victim was a civilian military employee who worked at the same unit in the Cyber Operations Command in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Unlike Yang, who was married and had a family, the victim was single.
Yang was later dismissed from his position in the military. (Yonhap)