Senior South Korean Police Officer Sentenced to 3 Years Over Crowd Crush
Lee Im-jae, a former district chief, is the most senior official to be convicted in connection with the 2022 disaster that killed nearly 160 Halloween partygoers.
South Korean court gives prison sentences to 3 police officers over deadly 2022 Halloween crush
It was the first conviction of officials over the failure by authorities to prevent or adequately respond to the overcrowding that occurred in the popular Itaewon district.
South Korea Halloween crush: police officials jailed over 'man-made' tragedy
A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the former police chief of a district of Seoul to three years in prison for a botched response to a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital's Itaewon nightlife district in 2022.
Court to deliver verdicts for Yongsan Ward office chief, ex-Yongsan police chief over Itaewon crowd crush
A Seoul court is set to deliver verdicts Monday for the Yongsan Ward office chief and a former chief of the Yongsan Police Station over the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon.
Seoul court sentences ex-district police chief over 2022 Halloween crowd crush
A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former district chief of police to three years behind bars without labor over the city's tragic crowd crush of Halloween weekend 2022.
(LEAD) Court orders 3 yrs in prison without labor for ex-Yongsan police chief over Itaewon crowd crush
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former chief of the Yongsan Police Station to three years in prison without labor over the deadly 2022 crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon district, saying the danger was foreseeable, but he failed to take safety measures.
EX-YONGSAN POLICE CHIEF GETS 3 YEARS IN PRISON OVER DEADLY ITAEWON CROWD CRUSH
Former Yongsan Police Station chief Lee Im-jae (C) leaves a courtroom in Seoul on Sept. 30, 2024, after he was sentenced to three years in prison without forced labor on charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury during the 2022 crowd crush in the Itaewon district.
South Korea court sentences highest-ranking police officer yet to jail over Halloween crush
The former head of a local police station in Seoul has been sentenced to three years in jail over a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush, making him the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be held criminally liable over the disaster.
3 police officers sentenced to prison over the Halloween crush in South Korea that killed nearly 160
A South Korean court gave three police officers prison sentences on Monday over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife
Local police chief jailed for 3 years over deadly S. Korea crowd crush: Yonhap
A South Korean court handed a three year jail term Monday to a former Seoul district police chief over a crush that killed more than 150 people, the Yonhap news
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