NARA, Jan 21 (News On Japan) –
The Nara District Court has sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, to life in jail, as requested by prosecutors, for capturing and killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe throughout a marketing campaign speech.
Yamagami confirmed no change in expression because the life sentence was handed down.
Yamagami was charged with homicide and different offenses after fatally capturing Abe with a home made gun in 2022.
In the lay choose trial, prosecutors argued the crime had led to “extremely grave consequences without precedent in postwar history,” looking for life imprisonment, whereas the protection urged the court docket to have in mind Yamagami’s background, together with the collapse of his household after his mom made giant donations to the previous Unification Church, and mentioned the sentence ought to be restricted to not more than 20 years in jail.
Attention had targeted on how a lot the court docket would contemplate his upbringing and circumstances, however the Nara District Court in the end handed down a life sentence.
Source: TBS