AICHI (TR) – At the opening of her trial, a lady accused of killing her former employer in Nagoya three years in the past and stealing valuables price greater than 70 million yen has denied the allegations, reviews CBC TV (Jan. 29).
At the Nagoya District Court on Thursday, Asuka Uchida, 32, admitted to abandoning the physique of Koichi Abe, then 42, within the closet of the sufferer’s condo Naka Ward. However, she denied the costs of robbery-murder. “I would like to completely deny the charges,” she mentioned.
According to the indictment, Uchida is accused of strangling Abe, who ran a treasured metals shopping for store, to demise in an his condo in 2023. She then stole roughly 800,000 yen in money and roughly 1,400 treasured metallic gadgets and different valuables price 74 million yen from the person’s residence and store.
Also on Thursday, the protection argued, “She strangled the man at his request, but she had no intent to kill him. She also received the valuables from him before he died.”
Abe is the previous supervisor of a second-hand items retailer. Uchida was as soon as an worker.
According to investigators, Uchida offered the dear metals and different gadgets that she had stolen at one other retailer. She used about 50 million of the obtained funds for meals and drinks at a number membership, the place she was fond of 1 specific host.
The prosecution identified that “money was needed to make the host she preferred number one [at the club].”