Man in his 40s causes a scene at hospital he was discharged from, demanding “Admit me”; assaults staff [True Crime]

[Financial News] A man in his 40s who caused a disturbance at the hospital he had been discharged from, demanding to be admitted again, and threatened hospital staff and police officers was sentenced to prison.
According to legal sources on the 12th, the Seoul Northern District Court's Criminal Division 3, sitting as a single-judge panel (Presiding Judge Lee Seong-gyun), sentenced A (46), who was indicted on charges of obstruction of business, refusal to leave, assault and insult, to two years and six months in prison on the 4th.
A was indicted on charges of obstructing hospital operations by causing a disturbance and refusing to leave a hospital in Seoul from June 1 through the following day. He was also accused of assaulting a staff member in the hospital's administrative office after his request for admission was denied, and of insulting police officers who responded to a call. 
Investigators found that A, who had surgery on his right leg and was discharged around May 20, caused a disturbance while demanding readmission. When the hospital asked him to leave because he was not an inpatient, he made remarks such as, “I've been diagnosed with an injury requiring 12 weeks of treatment, and if you don't admit me, that's refusal to provide medical care,” and, “I've got 50 prior convictions for violent offenses,” and caused a disturbance for about 50 minutes.
A's rampage continued the next day. At around 6:55 a.m. on June 2, he swore and threw a chair in the hospital's first-floor lobby because they would not admit him, and smoked indoors. He then took the elevator without authorization to the kitchen area on the 11th floor, smoked in the hallway, and disrupted hospital operations by shouting in the eighth-floor ward as well.
He also repeatedly assaulted hospital staff. On June 1, when staff tried to stop him, A forcefully shoved a wheelchair backward, hitting them in the shins. At around 8:48 p.m. that day, in the emergency room, he told a staff member, “If you touch that, I won't let you get away with it,” spat in their face, and grabbed and shook them by the collar. He also threatened to jab them in the eye.
The following morning, in the hospital's outdoor smoking area, he grabbed a staff member by the collar, hit them in the face with an orange he was holding, and then threw it. He also assaulted another staff member by pulling them by the collar and taking off their glasses.
He was also accused of swearing at police officers who responded to the call. Investigators found that even after he was arrested in the act, he made insulting remarks to another police officer.
At trial, A's defense argued that he had not caused a disturbance serious enough to disrupt hospital operations, and that any physical contact with staff occurred as he protested their attempts to restrain him, not with the intent to assault them. The defense also denied that he had sworn at police officers.
However, based on hospital CCTV footage and statements from the victims and responding police officers, the court found all the charges proven.
“Whenever things did not go his way, the defendant showed no hesitation in forcefully protesting and swearing at anyone, or even resorting to violence,” the court said. “Considering the number and nature of the acts of obstruction, the duration of the disruption, the number of victims and the manner of the assaults, his culpability is grave and the offenses themselves are particularly serious.”
It emerged that A had been sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison in 2024 on charges including obstruction of business, was released in October that year, and committed the new offense while still in the repeat-offender period.
The court treated as aggravating factors his record of receiving multiple prison sentences for past violent crimes and obstruction of business, and his failure to reach settlements with the victims or otherwise compensate them. It also considered that he largely denied the offenses and caused a disturbance at the hospital to which he was taken after requesting treatment while being held at a police station, resulting in the hospital refusing to treat him.
However, the court considered it in his favor that he admitted to some of the offenses and was experiencing discomfort because, while in custody, he had not received proper treatment for the injury that had led to his hospitalization.
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