ALS patient Killed by drug administration Two doctors were charged with murder of part-time service August 13 14:12
Two doctors were arrested for killing a woman in Kyoto city suffering from intractable disease, ALS, by administering a drug at the request of the person, and the Kyoto District Public Prosecutor's Office prosecuted the two for murder on request on the 13th. did.
The prosecution was defendant Kouichi Okubo (42), who is a doctor who is operating in Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture (42), and Naoki Yamamoto (43), who is operating in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.
According to the indictment, in November of last year, the two were accused of murder because they were given a drug and killed at the request of 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 moving. Is being questioned.
According to investigators, Dr. Okubo had purchased the same kind of sleeping pills that had been detected in the woman's body about one month before the incident, according to investigators. It means that 1.3 million yen was transferred.
Also, it was confirmed that the woman was exchanging specific methods of killing, the date and time, cash payment, etc. with the doctor through SNS, so the prosecutor's office decided that he could be found guilty of the murder of part-time murder. It is possible.
The police and the prosecution have so far not revealed the denial of the two.