Man physically abuses senior for being gentle to wife

A man who allegedly beat up a man in his 60s for offering a seat to his wife was booked without detention, according to Busan Dong-nae Police Station.

The accused, whose name has only been released as Lee, was travelling in a bus with his spouse last Thursday when an older man let the wife take his seat.

Lee hurled abuse at the old man for showing hospitality to “someone else’s wife.” He then tried to strangle him.

Closed-circuit television of the incident showed Lee then kicking and punching his wife, who had tried to calm him down.

Commotion erupted abroad the bus with passengers hurrying to get off, until a young man intervened to stop Lee.

Meanwhile, citizens who were at the scene charged that the police did not take appropriate measures in the case.

An officer who arrived at the scene reportedly said, “It is not much of a fuss” in the presence of the victim and suspect.

The police did not arrest Lee, saying that one cannot be “caught in the act” twenty five minutes after an incident.

The police are to summon Lee for further investigation this Wednesday, while an officer was ordered to undertake ethics training.

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