歲月號渡輪船長被判終身監禁大綱

A South Korean appeals court has handed a sentence of life in prison to the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank last year, overturning a lighter punishment by a lower court.

一家韓國上訴法院判處去年翻沉的歲月號渡輪船長李俊錫終身監禁，推翻了一家法院此前做出的較輕判決。

The high court in the southern city of Gwangju on Tuesday convicted Lee Joon-seol of the murder of 304 passengers who died when the ferry sank last April off the country's southwest coast.

星期二，韓國南部城市光州的高等法院判定李俊錫對304名乘客犯有謀殺罪。去年4月，歲月號渡輪在韓國西南沿海翻沉，導致這些乘客死亡。

In November, a lower court sentenced Lee to 36 years in jail after finding him guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty for abandoning the passengers, who were mostly high school students on a school outing.

去年11月，一家法院判定丟下乘客（大多是外出郊遊的高中學生）自己棄船逃生的李俊錫犯有嚴重瀆職罪，判處他36年監禁。

Lee's action "seriously hurt our national image, (and) is not forgivable for any reasons," according to a court statement published by the South Korean news agency, Yonhap.

韓聯社發表的法院聲明說，李俊錫的行爲嚴重損害了國家形象，無可原諒。

The court also reduced the sentence of 14 crew members. They will now receive jail terms ranging from 18 months to 12 years, instead of the five- to 30-year sentences handed down in November.

這家法院對14名船員減刑。他們的刑期從18個月到12年不等，而他們去年11月被判服刑五至30年。