HOKKAIDO (TR) – An aged man going through trial for the tried homicide of his spouse has been discovered lifeless on a mountain, 5 days after vanishing from an area hospital, prosecutors introduced, studies Nippon News Network (Aug. 21).
Shortly after 11:00 a.m. on Friday, the Hakodate District Public Prosecutors Office confirmed the loss of life of 77-year-old Kiyoshi Okawa.
According to police, looking out officers found Okawa’s physique mendacity face up in a rocky space roughly one kilometer from the Mount Hakodate Observatory.
Okawa was indicted final month on prices of tried homicide. In June of this 12 months, he allegedly tried to kill his spouse, who’s in her 70s, by placing her with a hammer at their shared residence.
The defendant had been granted a suspension of his detention on August 16 so he may obtain medical remedy. He was admitted to a hospital in Hakodate City however slipped away from the ability later that night, sparking a police manhunt.