HOKKAIDO (TR) – A 20-year-old lady from Asahikawa City who has been accused of murdering a highschool woman by shoving her off a bridge is searching for leniency, she introduced this week.
The unnamed lady, aged 19 on the time of arrest, has been indicted on fees of homicide and different crimes. She held a press convention on Tuesday and acknowledged that she wouldn’t contest the info at trial.
Early on April 19, the lady and Riko Uchida, 22, took Runa Murayama, a 17-year-old highschool scholar from Rumoi City, to the Kamui Ohashi bridge, positioned on the outskirts of Asahikawa, and allegedly compelled her to tumble into the river ten meters beneath.
According to the lady’s lawyer, she and Uchida had Murayama sit on the railing of the bridge. Murayama then grabbed the lady’s arm and climbed down onto the bridge as soon as, however the two of them made her sit on the railing once more dealing with the river. They then pushed her within the again, inflicting her to fall.
The lady mentioned, “As soon as [Murayama] fell, she grabbed the rope of the suspension bridge. I reached out to pull her up, but she fell into the river. I heard a loud noise as she fell into the river. [Defendant Uchida] said, ‘Let’s go,’ and I had no choice but to follow her. She told me not to talk about it.”
The protection argues that the lady “had an inescapable relationship” with Uchida. “There have been some reports that I deny the charges, so I held this press conference to deny them. The trial will be a mitigating defense,” she mentioned.
A letter from the lady to her protection was additionally made public. She wrote that she dedicated a criminal offense so severe that she might by no means atone for it. She mentioned, “If I had stopped [Uchida], the victim might have been living a normal life by now. But I ended up causing her death. If I could go back in time, I would want to help the victim even at the cost of my own life. I want to go back to that time many times.”
The first listening to is scheduled for February 27, 2025. The verdict is scheduled to be handed down on March 7. The trial will probably be by lay judges. Uchida’s trial will probably be separate. No date has been set.