Actor Nana, formerly of the group After School (birth name Lim Jin-a), and her mother were found to have acted in self-defense for the injury inflicted while subduing a robber who broke into their home.
Guri Police Station in Gyeonggi Province said on the 22nd that it plans to refer a man in his 30s, identified as A, to prosecutors on the 24th on charges of aggravated robbery causing injury. Police did not book Nana and her mother, judging that their response constituted self-defense.
A is accused of breaking into Nana's home in Acheon-dong, Guri, Gyeonggi Province, around 6 a.m. on the 15th, threatening Nana and her mother with a weapon, and demanding money. The two engaged in a physical struggle to restrain A, and during the scuffle A suffered a laceration to the jaw area caused by the weapon.
Police reviewed statements from the victims and the suspect to determine whether the act fell under Article 21(1) of the Criminal Act on self-defense. The provision states that an act to protect one's own or another's legal interest from a "current unjust infringement" constitutes self-defense if there is a "reasonable cause."
Police determined that there was a substantial infringement against the victims and that they did not inflict excessive injury on the suspect in the course of defense.
Meanwhile, A applied for a detention warrant review on the 18th, two days after being arrested, saying that police did not inform him of the Miranda warning during the arrest, but the court dismissed the request.