OSAKA (TR) – The Osaka District Court on Thursday sentenced a 53-year-old man to twenty years in jail for stabbing a restaurant proprietor to demise over an unpaid eating invoice, experiences Mainichi Broadcasting System (July 16).
In April of final 12 months, Takahiro Sugimoto, an organization worker residing in Toyonaka City, fatally stabbed 24-year-old restaurant supervisor Ibuki Takenaka a number of instances with a kitchen knife at an condo complicated. Sugimoto additionally tried to homicide one other man who was current on the scene through the violent altercation.
Dramatic video footage taken shortly after the massacre confirmed a knife-wielding Sugimoto screaming at arriving law enforcement officials in a patrol automobile.
“Hurry up and go! Someone’s going to die! You’re going to make me a murderer!” he was captured shouting.
During the trial, Sugimoto partially denied having the intent to kill.
However, the presiding decide dismissed the protection’s claims, handing down the two-decade sentence. The courtroom condemned the assault, stating that Sugimoto repeatedly slashed and stabbed the sufferer with a extremely deadly weapon, characterizing it as a “persistent crime based on a firm intent to kill” with an excessive stage of hazard.