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Woman gets 20 years for dismembering husbands body
By Lee Hyo-sik
A 40-year-old woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for suffocating her husband and dismembering his body.
The Changwon District Court ruled that the woman, identified only by her surname Lee, should be severely punished for an unethical and horrendous crime even though she suffered from habitual beatings by the husband.
“Lee later confessed the crime to a friend. She also has a daughter to raise. Given all these considerations, we decided to sentence her to only 20-years in prison,” it said in the ruling.
In August last year, Lee put a plastic bag over the head of her 59-year-old husband, identified only by his surname Choi, and suffocated him. She then dismembered his body, put the pieces into a travel suitcase and abandoned it in a storage unit owned by her parents.