TOKYO (TR) – In the primary listening to of a male waterproofing employee accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend three years in the past, the defendant has pleaded not responsible to allegations of homicide.
Ryoma Atsumi, 33, is accused of stabbing his girlfriend, 18-year-old Yurika Nomoto, to loss of life in a parked automobile on round June 7, 2023. He then allegedly deserted her physique in a mountain forest within the village Kosuge, Yamanashi Prefecture amongst different crimes.
“I did not stab her,” Ryoma Atsumi informed the Tokyo District Court on February 18, reviews Nippon News Network (Feb. 18).
However, Atsumi admitted to the fees of abandoning a corpse.
Wrapped in a blue tarp
In its opening assertion, the prosecution identified that the defendant’s relationship with Nomoto had deteriorated by round May 2023. He then killed her with a knife whereas they had been alone within the automobile.
After that, he known as a male pal, 33, with the promise of lending him cash. They collectively deserted the physique, wrapped in a blue tarp.
The prosecution identified that “the victim was last seen alive with the defendant in the car together. A friend who met up with the defendant shortly after the incident witnessed blood on the defendant’s arm and a person lying in the back seat of the car.”
The prosecuted additionally said that there’s video proof that Atsumi filmed displaying the physique contained in the automobile.
In response, the protection argued that the pal was additionally within the automobile on the time. The protection mentioned, “After a dispute arose, the victim took a knife out of her bag. The friend then tried to intervene, which ended [in the victim] being stabbed.”
DNA
The pal is Toshiya Hori, who lives in Chiba Prefecture. He has already been convicted of abandoning a corpse.
Police mentioned in 2023 that Atsumi had borrowed the automobile however deserted it on a avenue in Edogawa Ward with out returning it. When Tokyo Metropolitan Police examined the automobile in July, bloodstains had been discovered on the again seat.
Nomoto’s father filed a lacking individuals report in November 2023. By then, the automobile had been scrapped. However, police analyzed the DNA kind of bloodstains collected on the time and located that it was in step with Nomoto’s DNA.
Hori emerged as a suspect after talking with folks near Nomoto. A search was performed according to his assertion, and police discovered Nomoto’s partially skeletal stays within the forest in Yamanashi on November 27. Her id was confirmed by means of dental information.