TOKYO, July 14 (Xinhua) — A Tokyo courtroom on Friday sentenced a 37-year-old man to 19 years’ imprisonment for stabbing three passengers in a random knife assault on a Tokyo commuter prepare in August 2021.
Tokyo District Court stated in its ruling that Yusuke Tsushima, who had admitted to the cost of tried homicide of the three victims, “attacked passengers randomly one after another with a strong intent to kill.”
Prosecutors had sought a 20-year jail time period for the defendant, whereas his protection group requested 15 years, arguing his intent to homicide was insufficiently robust. In his ultimate assertion on the trial, nonetheless, Tsushima stated he was satisfied by prosecutors’ name for a 20-year sentence, and apologized.
According to the indictment, Tsushima severely injured a then 20-year-old college scholar by stabbing her a number of occasions within the chest and again and likewise injured a girl in her 50s and a person in his 30s on an Odakyu Electric Railway prepare on Aug. 6, 2021.