17 years ago, in a court case in which a female student at Ibaraki University was murdered in Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito responded to a Filipino defendant who was 18 years old at the time when he appeared from the Philippines where he fled and was charged with murder. The district court sentenced him to life imprisonment as he was sentenced.
17 years ago, in January 2004, near the mouth of Miho Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, a 21-year-old female student at Ibaraki University was found murdered, a 35-year-old Filipino who was 18 at the time. Defendant, along with two other Filipino men, was charged with murder and other charges, including strangling and killing a female student.
While the prosecution has sought life imprisonment in previous lay judge trials, lawyers have called for lightening the sentence, saying, "I am in a subordinate position and opposed the killing at least twice."
In a ruling on the 3rd, Mito District Court Judge Takeyuki Yuki said, "The victims have been slaughtered in a way that they can neither resist nor escape, and they are attacking in a relentless manner, which is highly dangerous and vicious. It's selfish and unavoidable to harsh criticism. "
He pointed out that he was swept away by his accomplices and committed the crime, but he was not in a subordinate position because he was doing important acts for murder, such as strangling his neck. I was sentenced to life imprisonment.