A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former district chief of police to three years behind bars without labor over the city's tragic crowd crush of Halloween weekend 2022.

A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people.

Lee Im-jae, a former district chief, is the most senior official to be convicted in connection with the 2022 disaster that killed nearly 160 Halloween partygoers.

Former Seoul Yongsan Police Precinct Chief Lee Im-jae, who was brought to trial on charges of poor response to the Itaewon crowd crush disaster of Oct. 29, 2022, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Seoul court on Monday.

A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the former police chief of a district of Seoul to three years in prison for a botched response to a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital's Itaewon nightlife district in 2022.

SEOUL - A South Korean court handed a three-year jail term on Sept 30 to a former Seoul district police chief over a crush that killed more than 150 people, the Yonhap news agency reported.

A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people

A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the former police chief of a district of Seoul to three years in prison for a botched response to a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital's Itaewon nightlife district in 2022.

Two other police officers were also convicted of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of victims mostly in their 20s and 30s A South Korean court has handed down prison sentences to three police officers over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people.

The former head of a local police station in Seoul has been sentenced to three years in jail over a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush, making him the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be held criminally liable over the disaster.

A former South Korean police officer was sentenced to three year imprisonment over a crowd crush that killed at least 158 people at a nightlife district during Halloween festivities in 2022.