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A Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered a family of three was allegedly obsessed with fantasies of Olympic glory and billionaire encounters, a court heard on Thursday.
Prosecutors argued that Kwang Kyung Yu, 51, who pleaded guilty last February to the murders of a seven-year-old student and his parents, should never be released. A New South Wales Supreme Court judge will sentence him on December 16.
State law prevents the child victim of a crime from being identified, so his parents cannot even be named.
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u lied about meeting the richest people AustralianGina Rhinehart, qualifying for sydney olympics and a boss lamborghini According to evidence presented in court on Thursday, the luxury car.
To impress his wife, he would send emails to himself posing as an important person. He sometimes called himself Professor Yu.
Forensic psychiatrist Andrew Ellis told the court, “It’s a form of fantasy, essentially a grandiose or self-important fantasy that he is richer, has a higher social status, has had more success in various areas in life than he actually has.”
In reality, Yu was deep in debt and was also paying rent for the Lions Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy, where he murdered the boy and his mother after class.
Prosecutors said Yu began thinking about murder after seeing the student’s father become successful and wealthy.
The court was told his mind wandered to how he could kill the family to get his money.
Yu strangled the mother and son at his academy before driving the woman’s BMW luxury sedan to the family home, where he attacked the father with a knife.
In the struggle the father also stabbed Yu. Yu drove the BMW to a hospital where he told medical staff that he had been attacked in a supermarket carpark. The next day the police arrested him from the hospital.
After his arrest, Yu could not explain how he would get the family money and later spoke in detail about his remorse.
He told prison officials, “Two months ago I was… well. Now I’m a murderer.” “I feel shame, guilt and sadness.”
UK lawyers Richard Wilson He refuted prosecutors’ contention that his client was “motivated by jealousy and hatred” toward the family.
Wilson said, “There’s some evidence that maybe he was jealous of what they had, but in terms of jealousy and hatred… it doesn’t seem to be the motivation here.”
Wilson argued that Yu 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.