AICHI (TR) – A courtroom right here final week sentenced a 40-year-old man a life-in-prison time period over the homicide and theft of a second man within the city of Agui greater than two years in the past, experiences Jiji Press (Feb. 24).
On February 24, the Nagoya District Court handed Masaya Otani, of no recognized occupation, the life time period over the homicide and theft of non permanent employee Haruhiko Hayashi, 53, on the grounds of the sufferer’s personal dwelling.
Presiding choose Yoshiji Sakamoto rejected the protection’s declare of innocence in handing down the sentence requested by the prosecution. The protection plans to attraction.
According to the decision, on December 11, 2023, Otani broke into a personal dwelling in Agui strangled Hayashi to demise as he was returning dwelling and stole his automobile and different gadgets.
He then dumped Hayashi’s physique in a wooded space on the property sooner or later over the following a number of weeks.
“Unnatural, irrational and completely unreliable”
Hayashi’s physique was discovered the next January.
During the trial, the defendant claimed he was merely serving to somebody flee in the course of the night time, claiming the accusations to be false.
However, choose Sakamoto famous that his fingerprints and DNA had been detected on adhesive tape and different gadgets. Based on the testimony of a feminine acquaintance who had overheard a dialogue in regards to the homicide, the choose stated, “The defendant’s testimony is unnatural, irrational and completely unreliable.”
The courtroom additionally identified that Otani had written a “disappearance declaration” after the homicide and notified the sufferer’s employer of his resignation. “His actions after the crime were also heinous, and his criminal responsibility is serious.”