SKOREA-ACCIDENT-BOAT-TRIAL-FILES

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(FILES) In this file picture taken on June 24, 2014, Sewol ferry captain Lee Joon-Seok (C) is escorted upon his arrival at the Gwangju District Court in the southwestern South Korean city of Gwangju. South Korea prosecutors on October 27 demanded the death penalty for Lee Joon-Seok, captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April with the loss of more than 300 lives — most of them schoolchildren. Captain Lee Joon-Seok had been charged with “homicide through wilful negligence” along with senior crew members for whom prosecutors recommended life sentences as their trial closed in the southern city of Gwangju. AFP PHOTO / FILES / WONSUK CHOI