The sister-in-law of Nottingham Forest striker Hwang Ui-jo has been sentenced to three years in prison for posting private explicit videos of the South Korean international and trying to blackmail him.
The defendant, who has not been named, was accused of sharing the videos on social media while pretending to be an ex-girlfriend accusing him of infidelity.
She posted the videos ‘knowing it would be disseminated indiscriminately’, the Seoul Central District Court said in a verdict, Yonhap news agency reported.
‘The content has been widely distributed in and out of South Korea… the nature of her crime is very serious,’ the court said.
The defendant had strongly denied the charges brought against her up to the trial and said there was a possibility her phone had been hacked.
But she later submitted a letter to judges in which she admitted to the crime and offered her apologies to the court and Hwang.
Hwang has denied the allegations and prosecutors have…
Source: Linda Ikeji
