TOKYO, Dec 13 (Kyodo) –
A Japanese court docket on Tuesday sentenced a 68-year-old man to life in jail for fatally taking pictures a physician and attacking different medical employees earlier than an 11-hour standoff with police at his residence close to Tokyo final 12 months.
In handing down the sentence as sought by prosecutors, the Saitama District Court discovered that Hiroshi Watanabe had the intent to kill 44-year-old Junichi Suzuki and different employees in a shotgun assault throughout a house go to on Jan. 27 final 12 months.
Presiding Judge Kenji Koike dismissed arguments by the protection that the photographs had been unintended or not meant to kill, saying that the close-range firing of the weapon indicated in any other case.
Saying Watanabe harbored resentment towards Suzuki and the opposite medical employees following the dying the day prior to this of his mom, who had been of their care, Koike mentioned his actions had been “irrational, even in consideration of his significant sense of loss over the death of his mother.”
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