Zama 9 people murder case first trial Defendant admits murder Lawyer asserts consent September 30, 14:31
Three years ago, in the case where the bodies of nine young women were found in an apartment in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, a lay judge trial of a 29-year-old defendant accused of murder-robbery began, and the defendant admitted the killing I did.
Meanwhile, the defendant's lawyer claimed that the victim had agreed to be killed and remained guilty of assisted murder.
Three years ago, in October 2017, at an apartment in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, the bodies of nine men and women aged 15 to 26, including three high school girls from Gunma, Saitama, and Fukushima, and a female university student from Saitama Prefecture, were found one after another. In the case found, Takahiro Shiraishi (29), who lived in the apartment room, sexually assaulted him, killed nine people, robbed him of cash, and abandoned his body in a cooler box. Is being asked.
Three years have passed since the case was discovered, and the lay judge trial began on the 30th at the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court.
Defendant Shiraishi had hair extending to his shoulders and wore long blue sleeves.
He wore glasses and a white mask, and occasionally looked at the ceiling, and his expression seemed calm.
He stated that the content of the indictment was "according to the indictment," and admitted the murder.
On the other hand, the defendant's lawyer claimed that the victim had agreed to be killed, but that it was only a crime of consented murder.
He said he had no or was significantly weakened in criminal liability at the time of the incident.
The prosecution stated in the opening statement about the circumstances leading up to the incident, saying, "I thought it would be easy for a woman with suicidal ideation to aim, so I opened a Twitter account in March 2017. Message with multiple women pretending to have suicidal ideation. I started exchanging. "
The trial is still ongoing in court.