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A judge sentenced sydney A taekwondo instructor was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release Tuesday for the murders of a 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents.
Kwang Kyung Yu, 51, sat with his head bowed as Justice Ian Harrison said he would never be eligible for parole.
Harrison said Yu was motivated by the jealousy he felt for the family’s financial success.
Harrison told the New South Wales Supreme Court, “I am satisfied that the level of culpability for these offenses is so extreme that the community’s interest in retribution, punishment, community safety and deterrence can only be served by a life sentence.”
Harrison said Yu had no reason to kill the boy or his parents in February last year.
State law prevents child victims of crime from being identified, so the boy’s parents cannot even be named.
Yu and his victims were all born south korea,
Yu had pleaded guilty to three murders in an earlier court appearance. He had no prior criminal record.
Yu strangled the boy and his 41-year-old mother to death at his Lions Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy in western Sydney. At the time he owed thousands of dollars and was behind in rent at the academy.
He took mom’s Apple Watch and drove her luxury car BMW He drove to the family home where he stabbed the boy’s 39-year-old father to death.
Yu was injured during a struggle at the home and drove himself to hospital where he told medical staff that he had been attacked in a supermarket car park. Police He was arrested in the hospital.
After his arrest, Yu could not explain how he had intended to obtain the family money and later spoke in detail about his remorse.
Former instructor, whose students called him Master LionHe did not look at the victim’s family and other supporters as he cried in the court’s public gallery after the sentencing.
The judge said, “These murders were horrific and violent acts, senselessly cruel and deplorable, carried out without any human compassion.”
While the crimes were planned – Yu had surveilled the family home in advance – he made no attempt to conceal his crimes or hide the bodies from CCTV cameras at his academy.
At a sentencing hearing in November, the judge heard that Yu had lied about meeting Gina Rinehart, the wealthiest Australian, qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, owning a Lamborghini luxury car and living in Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs.
To impress his wife, he would send emails to himself posing as an important person. He sometimes used the title Professor.
Harrison said Yu told a psychologist that as his wife and students asked more questions, his lies became more elaborate.
The judge said that since childhood, Yoo had been burdened with unrealistic expectations from his parents and South Korean culture about what level of success he should achieve.
Yu was handed a box of tissues as the judge expressed deep remorse for the hurt and pain he had caused.
In a letter to the judge, Yu said he was “taken captive by sin” and wanted to surrender himself to Jesus Christ.
“I wish I could turn back time so this didn’t happen,” Yu wrote. “I pray every day for the people I’ve hurt.”
Yu’s lawyers had argued that he should be given a minimum non-parole period rather than a life sentence without the possibility of release. The maximum sentence for someone convicted of murder in New South Wales is life imprisonment, with a standard non-parole period of 20 years for the murder of an adult and a standard non-parole period of 25 years for the murder of a child.