A court gave a suspended sentence to a man in his 60s who dug up his paternal uncle's grave and burned the remains with a gas sprayer.
On the 22nd, according to legal sources, Presiding Judge Go Beom-jin of the Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 2 sentenced A, 67, who was tried on charges of damaging excavated remains from a grave and violating the Act on Funeral Services, etc., to six months in prison, suspended for two years.
A is accused of digging up his paternal uncle's grave in Hongcheon County, Gangwon, in April last year, removing the remains, and burning them with an LPG gas sprayer at a place other than a crematory.
It was also found that A dug up another grave and burned the remains in the same manner.
The court said, "The bereaved family is likely to have suffered considerable mental pain and shock due to the defendant's crime," adding, "We took into account that the defendant admitted to all the crimes and has no prior record of criminal punishment for a similar offense."