TOKYO (TR) – A court docket right here this week convicted a 33-year-old man of murdering his teenage girlfriend and abandoning her physique in a forest three years in the past, studies Nippon News Network (Mar. 16).
At the Tokyo District Court on March 16, the presiding choose handed Ryoma Atsumi a 22-year jail time period for homicide and abandoning a corpse.
In 2023, Atsumi stabbed his girlfriend, 18-year-old Yurika Nomoto, in a parked automobile. He then deserted her physique in a forest within the village of Kosuge, Yamanashi Prefecture.
Judge mentioned that “it is recognized that [Atsumi] killed the victim with intent to kill, stabbing her in the chest and other areas with a knife.”
During the trial, Atsumi maintained his innocence relating to the homicide cost, claiming he didn’t stab her. However, he admitted to abandoning a corpse.
In its opening assertion, the prosecution identified that the defendant’s relationship with Nomoto had deteriorated by round May 2023. He then killed her with a knife whereas they have been alone within the automobile.
After that, he referred to as a male buddy, 33, with the promise of lending him cash. They collectively deserted the physique, wrapped in a blue tarp.
In response, the protection argued that the buddy was additionally within the automobile on the time. The protection mentioned, “After a dispute arose, the victim took a knife out of her bag. The friend then tried to intervene, which ended [in the victim] being stabbed.”
The court docket dominated that “[the defendant] transported the body to the mountains and abandoned it to prevent detection, and the tragic result is that some of the remains have yet to be found, making the manner of the crime extremely malicious,” and “the series of crimes as a whole were extremely selfish.”