Former driver sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing company president Chiba District Court March 25, 15:45
A former driver who was charged with killing a 75-year-old company president in a mansion in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture, told the Chiba District Court that the crime was brutal, including assaulting a disabled person. It was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
In November, Jiro Iwai, the president of a Japanese language school (75), was killed in a room in a high-rise apartment in Sakura City in November. Kazuhiko Takano, former driver of Iwai, defendant (55). Have been charged with murder.
While the prosecution filed for 18 years in prison, the defendant claimed no charge, saying, "I was just involved in a case by accident when I visited an apartment to ask for reemployment."
In a ruling on the 25th, Chief Justice Koji Hiratsuka of the Chiba District Court stated, "The defendant's statement that he had visited the victim to request reemployment was unnatural and unreliable. It will be recognized without any doubt. "
He added, "The crimes are brutal, such as hitting the head of a disabled person multiple times, and it is hard to see the remorse of the victim who was forced to die. And there is no room for ex post action. "