TOKYO (TR) – Prosecutors are searching for a 17-year jail sentence for a 52-year-old man accused of murdering a 25-year-old bar hostess on the grounds of her residence constructing in Shinjuku Ward final 12 months, stories Jiji Press (July 10).
At round 3:00 a.m. on May 8, Manabu Wakui, of no identified occupation, allegedly used two fruit knives to repeatedly stab Toshino Hirasawa, 25, within the abdomen, neck and again in a courtyard of the constructing in Nishi Shinjuku. She was later confirmed useless.
At the Tokyo District Court on Thursday, the Hirasawa’s mother and father gave an announcement. Her father mentioned, “We request a sentence that will prevent her from ever returning to society. I’m sorry I couldn’t protect my daughter.”
As beforehand reported, Hirasawa had expertise as a bar hostess all throughout Tokyo. Wakui was acquainted along with her by his visits to her bars.
Later throughout the proceedings, the prosecution sought a 17-year jail sentence. “The two were merely in a pseudo-romantic relationship for the sake of sales, as a staff member and a customer at the club,” the prosecution mentioned. “He murdered her out of obsession, and there is little room for leniency as far as his motive.”
Meanwhile, the protection argued that an 11-year jail sentence was applicable. “She said she would marry him if he risked his life for her, so he sold his car and motorcycle, which were the second most important things to him after his life, and gave her more than 16 million yen,” the protection mentioned. “The final blow was when she said bad things about him during a live stream.”
Regarding Wakui’s declare that he had requested Hirasawa to return the cash, the prosecution identified that “this was merely an excuse for contact, and if he had wanted to resolve the matter he had time to take legitimate measures.”
In its closing argument, the prosecution argued that Wakui had saved a minimum of one knife in his automobile for a number of months previous to the incident. “It was clear that he had the intent to harm someone,” the prosecution mentioned. With the physique of Hirasawa having suffered greater than 20 stab wounds, the prosecution mentioned that the crime was “a dangerous and brutal act based on a strong intent to kill.”
The ruling will probably be handed down on July 14.