SEOUL: A South Korean appeals court found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago guilty of murdering the 304 people who died in the disaster and upped his sentence to life imprisonment.
The ruling in the southern city of Gwangju yesterday overturned a lower court decision which had acquitted Lee Jun-seok of homicide charges in November, convicting him instead of gross negligence and sentencing him to 36 years.
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