- Woman died of stab wounds, South Korean investigators found.
- Man told police he would take his own life.
- Supreme Court upholds high court, district court verdicts.
A crypto chief who threw his girlfriend off the 19th-floor after stabbing her during a heated row has failed to clear his name — and will spend the next 25 years behind bars.
The South Korean Supreme Court upheld a previous district court sentence handed out to the unnamed man, aged in his 30s, rejecting his legal team’s claims that his mental health had been compromised.
“We have taken into account the fact that the defendant had been receiving psychiatric counseling since middle school and that he committed the crime while in a state of mental weakness,” a panel of…
