Posted on : May.27,2006 09:41 KST
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Ji Chung-ho, who slashed oppsition leader Park Geun-hye in the face, was being taken by insestigators of the Prosecutor Office on May 23. Seoul/Yonhap News
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First jail sentence for knife attack on woman
The man who attacked Grand National Party chairwoman Park Geun-hye by slashing her face with an office utility knife began the more than 14 years he served on and off in prison when in 1984 he cut a woman's face with a shaving knife.
According to trial records obtained by the Hankyoreh, on May 16, 1984 Ji Chung-ho attacked a woman in a residential section of Seoul's Gangnam neighborhood, cutting her twice on the face and on one of her legs with a shaving knife. The injuries to her face were serious enough to put her in the hospital for a period of two weeks. Mr. Ji had met the woman at a bar in September of 1982 and the two had been carrying on an intimate relationship until she broke it off in 1983 due to Mr. Ji¡?s unpredictable, violent behavior. Mr. Ji had assaulted the woman in her Incheon home in April of that year, grabbing her by the hair and kicking her, and in December he repeatedly beat her with a telephone receiver. During that time he extorted a total of 10.5 million won (10,500 USD) from the woman and her family. In 1985, he was given a four-year sentence for the 1984 knife attack.
After his release in 1989, he sought out the woman again and extorted a total of 3.95 million won from her in a series of nine incidents between May and December that year. For this, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and seven years of supervised confinement beginning in 1991.