AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-1999
NSW: Convicted murderer jailed for 18 years
A Korean national who murdered his wife and her daughter because his wife wouldn't
sign immigration forms for him has been jailed for at least 18 years.
SOO DUCK JANG killed his wife, 48-year-old IN JA YOO, and her daughter from a previous
marriage, 27-year-old MIN KYOUNG KANG, by slashing their throats and repeatedly stabbing
them.
Justice VIRGINIA BELL has told the NSW Supreme Court that 57-year-old JANG harassed
and threatened Mrs YOO in the months leading up to the April 1998 killing.
He had been trying to make her sign permanent residence forms for him, after she sponsored
him to come to Australia when they married in Korea in 1995.
Justice BELL says JANG stabbed the women at their unit in Blacktown, in Sydney's west,
after an argument over Mrs YOO's refusal to sign the forms.
JANG then left the women lying on the floor crying and bleeding and later tried to
commit suicide by slashing his wrists with a broken bottle.
He originally pleaded NOT GUILTY to murder, but changed his plea to GUILTY as his trial
was about to start.
AAP RTV gl/bd/sb/kbw/jn
KEYWORD: JANG (SYDNEY)
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