The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people, was jailed for life for homicide by an appeals court on Tuesday.<br /><br /> It is a harsher verdict and sentence for Lee Joon-seok, who was convicted of negligence by a lower court last year and given 36 years behind bars. <br /><br /> While increasing the captain’s punishment, the Gwangju High Court overturned a homicide conviction against the chief engineer of the ferry Sewol, finding him guilty instead of negligence. His sentence of 30 years in jail was reduced to 10 years.<br /><br /> And the court reduced prison terms for other crew members also in the dock.<br /><br /> The overloaded ferry capsized while on a routine journey in April 2014 off South Korea’s southern coast. It was later found to be structurally defective.<br /><br /> Of the 304 confirmed dead or missing, 250 were school children on an organised trip.<br /><br /> Anger at the captain intensified as evidence emerged that the mostly teenage passengers waited in their cabins, obediently fol
