Jang Yoon-ki's first trial for murder of a high school girl on the street opens on the 30th.

The first sentencing hearing for Jang Yoon-gi (23), who murdered a high school girl walking on the street for the purpose of a sexual crime, will be held on the 30th.

The 13th Criminal Division of the Gwangju District Court (Chief Judge Lee Jeong-ho) will hold a sentencing hearing for Jang Yoon-ki, who was arrested and indicted on charges of rape and murder under the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, etc. at 2 p.m.

Jang Yoon-gi was put on trial on charges of murdering Lee Chae-won (then 16, a second-year high school student) on a deserted pedestrian path in Wolgye-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, at around 10:10 on May 5, and also brandishing a weapon to a second-year high school male student who came running after hearing her screams.

The prosecution charged her with rape and murder, punishable only by the death penalty or life imprisonment, and requested the death penalty at the trial.

Jang Yoon-ki's indictment also included charges of several sexual crimes, including stalking and sexually assaulting a female part-time worker two days before the crime and secretly filming the body of a teenage female while working as a social worker.

In court, Jang Yoon-ki admitted all the charges, including murder for the purpose of sexual assault, and also submitted three statements of remorse.

Around the sentencing hearing, the victim's family held a one-person protest calling for the court's maximum sentence and submitted a petition to the court with the signatures of about 100,000 citizens calling for severe punishment.