Warning The tale that follows is in progress and touches on delicate subjects like death and domestic abuse.Known for his work on Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan and Seven Deadly Sins, former Kodansha editor Jung-hyun Park was given an 11-year jail term for the murder of his wife.
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The ex-Kodansha editor was found guilty of his wife's murder in August 2016 and was given an 11-year jail term on July 18, 2024, after the case was retried. When prosecutors first brought charges against him for the horrifying incident in January 2017, they sought a 15-year sentence.Park provided a number of erroneous accounts as the inquiry started. He first claimed to investigators that his wife had killed herself, but then amended his account to claim that she had fallen down a set of stairs. Suffocation was determined to be the cause of death when the paramedics came and her corpse was discovered at the bottom of the steps. When Park's suicide allegations were contested in court, he said that his wife had been behaving aggressively before to her death. He went on to tell Tokyo Reporter that the disparities in his account were intentional to keep his kids from finding out what transpired with their mother. On July 18, the court said, "It is too sudden and unnatural that the wife lost consciousness and then moved around so much that she made a noise, and then committed suicide," concluding that Park's statement had too many discrepancies.Park has declared his intention to challenge the ruling in court. Park started working at Kodansha in 1999. He started out as the editor of
Attack on Titan in the magazine
Bessatsu Shonen before moving on to
Weekly Morning.Tokyo Reporter is the source.