ALS commissioned murder two doctors re-arrested Suspicion of forgery of documents of another patient wishing to be euthanized September 29, 12:25

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In the case where two doctors were arrested and charged with administering drugs to a woman suffering from an intractable disease, ALS, the medical science necessary for euthanasia overseas for another intractable disease patient whom they met on SNS According to an interview with an investigative official, he was re-arrested on the 29th on suspicion of forging a document.

Both doctors, Yuichi Okubo (42) and Naoki Yamamoto (43), received a request from a 51-year-old woman in Kyoto City who suffers from ALS, an intractable disease in which the muscles of the whole body gradually become immobile, in November last year. He was arrested on suspicion of commissioned murder for killing him, and was subsequently charged.



According to investigators and others, in a subsequent investigation, the two doctors made a pseudonym for a woman in her 20s living in the Kyushu region who met on SNS in September last year, necessary for euthanasia overseas. It turned out to be suspicious.



According to people familiar with the matter, the woman wanted to be euthanized abroad, and the documents included symptoms and medical history, but also the names of unrelated national hospitals, police said. On the same day, they were re-arrested on suspicion of forgery of officially signed documents.



Police are investigating the details of the fact that the woman has not actually traveled.



Police have so far not disclosed the approval or disapproval of the two.