SNS recruitment and killing of suicide applicants Defendant university student admits guilty of commissioned murder

SNS recruitment and killing of suicide applicants Defendant college student 12:29 p.m.

In September, SNS recruited suicide applicants and murdered a woman who contacted him at a hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. It was.

In September, Defendant Miki Kitajima (22), a fourth-year university student in Iruma City, Saitama, recruited suicide volunteers on Twitter and commissioned him to kill a 36-year-old woman who had contacted him at a hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. I am charged with murder.

At the first trial held at the Tokyo District Court on the 2nd, defendant Kitajima said “No” when asked if there were any mistakes in the indictment, and accepted the indictment.

The prosecution said, “Since July, the defendant has sent a message to the person who wanted suicide on the SNS,“ Let ’s kill him. ”Etc. I was thinking, "he said.

He also said, “We had promised to kill two women in addition to the victims, but they were not executed because they did not appear in the promised place.” Explained the situation of interacting with other people.