Top court upholds life sentence for woman and lover in nicotine poisoning death of husband
Social affairsNov 29, 2018
The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed lower courts' life imprisonment verdict for a woman and her lover, who were convicted of colluding in a nicotine-poisoning death of her husband two years ago.The woman, identified only as a 49-year-old surnamed Song, and her 48-year-old lover, surnamed Hwang, were accused of colluding to kill Song's husband by injecting liquid nicotine into his body at their home in Namyangju, east of Seoul, on April 22, 2016. (Yonhap)The husband, 53 years old at that time