HOKKAIDO (TR) – A courtroom right here final week handed a 61-year-old man a suspended jail in connection his’s daughter’s alleged decapitation of her lover at a love lodge in Sapporo City two years in the past, experiences TV Asahi (Mar. 12)
On March 12, the Sapporo District Court handed psychiatrist Osamu Tamura a 16-month jail time period, suspended for 4 years. The sentence was effectively in need of the 10-year time period sought by the prosecution.
During the trial, Tamura pleaded not responsible to allegations of aiding and abetting homicide and aiding and abetting the destruction of a corpse.
Tamura was accused of aiding his daughter, 31-year-old Runa, in beheading Hitoshi Ura, 62, at round 11:15 p.m. on July 1, 2023. The following day, Ura was discovered bare and headless inside a room.
The courtroom concluded in its ruling that “it cannot be determined that the defendant knew in advance that [his daughter] would kill the victim” concerning aiding and abetting homicide.
Both the prosecution and the protection agreed that Runa met Ura at a nightclub within the Susukino red-light district about on month earlier than the crime. At that point, he engaged in acts that have been in opposition to her will at a lodge.
Saw and suitcase
According to the indictment, Tamura bought a noticed and suitcase used within the crime and supplied them to his daughter. He additionally drove her to and from the lodge the place the crime occurred.
The defendant then allowed her to maintain the top at his dwelling. On July 7, he videotaped Runa mutilating the top, which she had introduced dwelling within the suitcase.
In their closing argument on February 18, the prosecution identified that Tamura knew concerning the plan a full two weeks earlier than the incident.
“Runa’s plan was well thought out to kill the victim by herself,” the prosecution mentioned, “and assistance was essential. The crime would not have been committed if defendant Osamu had not purchased the murder weapon.”
Meanwhile, the protection identified, “There is no evidence to suggest that he knew about Runa’s intent to kill in advance.”
Tamura maintained that he “became aware of the crime after it had already occurred.”
However, Tamura was thought of culpable for lesser costs of abandoning and destroying a corpse.
The courtroom acknowledged the truth that the top was saved within the dwelling as “aiding and abetting the abandonment of a corpse.”
Further, the courtroom acknowledged the videotaping as “aiding and abetting the destruction of a corpse.”
Runa is dealing with homicide and different costs. Runa’s mom, Hiroko, can be on trial on costs together with aiding within the abandonment of a corpse.