The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld life imprisonment for the convict in last year’s attempted rape and murder of a woman on a hiking trail in southern Seoul.
Choi Yun-jong, 30, was indicted on charges of fatally beating, throttling and attempting to rape the victim he randomly picked on a hillside hiking 추천 trail in the Sillim neighborhood on Aug. 17 last year.
The victim, an elementary school teacher in her 30s, was left unattended for some 20 minutes before being taken to a hospital but died two days later.
In January, a district court sentenced Choi to life in prison, saying he should be separated from society forever. In June, the Seoul High Court confirmed the ruling.