Name: Lee (Surname; given name unknown).
Died: June 2021.
Age at death: 38.
Cause of death: Drowning.
Location: Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Disability: Intellectual disability.
Details:
Mr. Lee’s brother gave him whiskey and sleeping pills. Shortly afterward, Mr. Lee was found dead, having died by drowning in a stream where his brother had left him.
Case Status:
Mr. Lee (Brother), convicted of murder and mishandling drugs, sentenced to 30 years; on appeal, the sentence was commuted to 10 years for abandonment rather than murder because the court could not find proof that Mr. Lee had actively drowned his brother, rather than simply leaving him near the stream, where he stumbled in and drowned.
Sources:
Man sentenced to 10 years for abandonment death of intellectually disabled brother