In the early hours of the morning of 12 July , Jong-Ok Shin , a year-old Korean English-language student living in Bournemouth , United Kingdom , was murdered in the Charminster area of the town, as she walked home from a night out with friends.
With no suspect immediately identified, Dorset Police appealed to the public. On 22 August , a drug addict and prostitute was arrested on an unrelated charge suspicion of shoplifting.
Whilst being interviewed for this offence, she was asked by police whether she knew anything about the recent murder. The woman told police that she did, providing an account and naming three individuals involved. One of the men she named was year-old Omar Benguit, a local man who lived nearby to where Shin was murdered. The same day, Benguit was arrested on suspicion of Shin's murder, before later being charged. He, along with another local man, Nicholas Gbadamosi, were also charged with rape, in relation to a woman who they were with on the night of the murder.
Gbadamosi also faced a charge of assisting an offender, in relation to allegedly disposing of evidence. It took two trials in and to find both men not guilty of rape and in the case of Gbadamosi, assisting an offender. At trial, Gbadamosi was released, when him and Benguit were found not guilty of rape as well as assisting an offender. However, having failed to reach a verdict on the charge of murder, a third trial was ordered. It was at this trial, in , that Benguit was found guilty of murdering Shin.
Benguit was sentenced to life imprisonment and has had two failed attempts at the Court of Appeal , in and Charminster is a residential and commercial suburb of Bournemouth in Dorset , situated between the suburbs of Springbourne to the south-east and Winton to the north-west. It was incorporated into the County Borough of Bournemouth in Charminster, as one of the oldest parts of Bournemouth, saw rapid growth before the First World War, with a number of shops, including grocers , butchers and drapers , amongst others, plying their trades.
