Five years ago, the defendant, who was sentenced to death in the first and second trials for murdering two men and abandoning his body in Lake Hamana, appealed to the Supreme Court on the 15th. Was withdrawn and the death penalty was confirmed.
In 2016, Tatsuya Kawasaki, a 37-year-old residential land and building trader in Hamamatsu City, murdered a former colleague and a man he knew one after another, and abandoned his body in and around Lake Hamana. He was charged with murder-robbery and other crimes.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, but the Shizuoka District Court in the first instance sentenced him to death, saying that "the possibility of a crime by a third party is almost unthinkable," and the second instance also sentenced him to death.
The defendant appealed and the Supreme Court was supposed to hand down the judgment on the 15th, but according to the Supreme Court, the defendant himself submitted a document to withdraw the appeal on the 13th, and the death penalty was confirmed.