Tokaido Shinkansen car killing case Defendant's man "Desire priority over ethics" December 4, 19:33
Last year, a defendant asked a 23-year-old man who was accused of murder in a case in which three men and women of a passenger were killed with a knife in a car on the Tokaido Shinkansen that was running. I have normal ethics, but I prioritized my desires. "
Defendant Ichiro Kojima (23), whose address was undefined, was unemployed in June last year by stroking in a train on the Tokaido Shinkansen that had been running in Kanagawa Prefecture, and then Kotaro Umeda, a company employee in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture (38 at that time) ) And injured two women, they were charged with murder and attempted murder.
Defendant questions were held at the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court on the 4th, and the prosecutor said that Kojima defended the woman on the window side while sitting on the aisle side of the two-seat seat. “What happened?” Asked the respondent, “the man was a man or a woman, an old man or a child, but he wanted to do it as a human.” He also said, “I have normal ethics, but prioritized my desires.”
The doctor who conducted the psychiatric examination of the defendant then went to court as a witness and testified that "the personality disorder had an effect on the formation of motives, but the crime was planned and the incident had no influence."