ALS part-time murder case Sleeping pills used Purchased a month before the case July 30, 5:34
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It has been 30 days since the two doctors were arrested on suspicion of part-time murder for killing a woman suffering from intractable disease and ALS with a drug. It was revealed in an interview with investigators that one of the arrested doctors purchased a sleeping pill of the same type as the drug detected in the woman's body at a wholesale company such as pharmaceuticals about a month before the incident It was.
Both doctors, Kouichi Okubo (42) and Naoki Yamamoto (43), received a request from a 51-year-old woman in Kyoto City who suffered from ALS, an intractable disease in which the muscles of the whole body gradually stopped working, in November last year. , Was arrested on the 23rd of this month on suspicion of part-time murder, saying that he was given drugs and killed.
Police identified the components detected in the female body and identified the administered drug as a barbituric acid sleeping pill used in countries such as overseas where euthanasia is accepted, but in Japan it is generally I was investigating the distribution channel because it was not on the market.
As a result, a new interview with investigators revealed that Okubo had purchased the same type of sleeping pills at a wholesaler of pharmaceuticals and other products headquartered in Sendai, about a month before the incident.
Doctor Okubo had received a message from a woman requesting killing earlier, and police are investigating the purchased sleeping pill as having been used for the crime.