The military death case, which has not been filed due to a poor investigation..."The state compensates".

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A court ruling has been issued that the state should compensate the bereaved family in connection with the death of the late Yeom Soon-deok, who was left unsolved due to the military's poor investigation.

It is believed that there were many problems with the investigation of the military police and the police, such as missing key evidence.

Reporter Kwon Junsu reports.

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In December 2001, Sergeant Yeom Soon-deok was hit by a blunt weapon on his way home after drinking with a sergeant from the same unit and the Defense Security Command.

Following the discovery of a tree branch with Mr. Yeom's blood in a river gravel field near where his boss was found,
The genes of two people, the level and the sergeant, were detected in two cigarette butts collected along the
road, and the two were identified as prime suspects.

However, the military police accepted their statement that they were playing billiards together at the time of the incident.

In addition, two cigarette butts were excluded from the investigation clue, saying that the results of the National Forensic Service's appraisal could not be trusted.
A tree branch believed to be an
criminal tool was lost.

The case, which remained unsolved for 15 years, led to a reinvestigation as the statute of limitations on the murder case was abolished,

Police confirmed that their alibis were fabricated at the time and booked.

However, the culprit was not identified in the end, with one making an extreme choice and the other not prosecuting the prosecution for lack of evidence.

Since then, the bereaved family of Yeom has filed a lawsuit against the state for failing to grasp the true nature of the case due to a poor investigation, but the court ruled in favor of the bereaved family.

It is said that the military police and police were very insufficient to secure evidence, such as unreasonably investigating key physical evidence in the early stages of the incident.

For this reason, the state said that the details of the murder have not been accurately identified so far, and that the state should pay 90 million won to the bereaved family.

Above all, the court stressed that the fact that the investigative agency does not even know how the evidence disappeared is illegal, saying that the negligence is serious in itself.

I'm YTN Kwon Junsu.

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