Shinkansen car killing case Defendant sentenced to life imprisonment December 9 12:20
Last June, a 23-year-old defendant's trial was held at the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court, accused of killing three men and women of passengers in a car on the Tokaido Shinkansen that was running. Prosecutors demanded indefinite sentences for defendants.
Defendant Ichiro Kojima (23), whose address is undefined and unemployed, cut off three passengers, male and female, on the Tokaido Shinkansen train that was running in Kanagawa Prefecture in June last year. (38 at the time) was murdered and accused of murder and attempted murder for injuring two women.
In previous trials, the defendant admitted what was prosecuted, saying, “I thought I wanted to go to jail and made a plan. I was thinking about how many people would be killed so that they would not be killed.”
On the 9th, in a judge trial held at the Odawara branch of the Yokohama District Court, a woman who was seriously injured in the case expressed an opinion in the court, saying, "It is not only that the body was hurt but also" Is it attacked again? " “I felt guilty for the man who helped me to become a vehicle that I could never ride on again,” he said. “Occasionally, he shook his voice and revealed his painful chest. "I can never forgive, and I want the defendant to regret the crimes he committed with his life."
After this, the prosecution demanded indefinite prison terms as `` a violent and serious indiscriminate killing, a crime that occurred in a full-sized Shinkansen car can be said to be violent terrorism. .
The ruling will be handed down on the 18th of this month.