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Updated Thursday, July 31, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Korean wins appeal in gasoline suicide case

SEOUL -- A South Korean man won his appeal against a one-year jail term for assisting in a suicide by throwing a lighter to his gasoline-soaked rival in love. The Seoul appeal court reversed a lower court ruling, saying that the 30-year-old man had not believed the ex-lover of his girlfriend would actually set light to himself, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.

Last September, the former boyfriend had stopped the couple in their car after dousing himself in petrol, threatening to kill himself is she did not get out. The defendant then threw him a lighter, saying: “Go ahead and kill yourself,” the news agency said. The man died of his burns.

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