By Kim Jong-chan
Police sought an arrest warrant for a man, who despite wearing an electronic tracing anklet allegedly killed woman he was attempting to sexually assault, officers said Tuesday.
According to police, the man, surnamed Seo, entered her house in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, and tried to attack the housewife. When the woman resisted, he stabbed her to death in the neck, said a spokesman at Gwangjin Police Station.
The man, 42, sneaked into her house around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, when she went out to see her two children off to kindergarten, the spokesman said. At that time, the door of her home remained unlocked.
After entering the house, he waited for the woman, 37, to return.
Police officers rushed to the scene, after being told by a resident over the telephone that someone was fighting and screaming, he said.
Seo was previously convicted for raping women three times, according to police. He was released from prison in October last year, after serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for raping a woman in her 20s in Seoul in April 2004.
Since then, the ex-convict has been under constant police surveillance and worn an electronic tracing anklet on his left ankle.
Seo’s home was only 1 kilometer far from the woman’s house.