Niigata Elementary School 2 Girl Murder Case Defendant Appeals December 11 18:56
Last May, Niigata City killed a second-year elementary school girl and was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and other charges for losing his body on the track. As an appeal. The hearing will continue in the Tokyo High Court.
Defendant Kobayashi (25) in Nishi-ku, Niigata City, took a second-year elementary school girl (7 years old at that time) by driving away with a car, obscene acts, squeezed and killed, He was charged with murder and other charges for abandoning the body.
In the trial, the defendant's lawyer insisted that the defendant had no murderous intention and was injured and killed, saying, "The purpose of strangling was to stun."
The Niigata District Court of the 1st trial was sentenced to imprisonment on the 4th of this month, saying, “The result is serious in an indiscriminate case targeting the weak, but it is inevitable to choose the death penalty.” I passed the judgment.
According to the court, the defendant appealed this decision on the 11th.
The trial will continue at the Tokyo High Court.