In the case where a university student in Nagasaki City was arrested for murdering a 79-year-old woman in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, police did not make an emergency deployment for three days from the discovery of the woman's body until the university student self-confessed. It turned out that we did not call attention to the area.
The police said that the initial investigation was "investigating both the incident and the accident and not disregarding the incidentality."
Koushi Yamaguchi, a 25-year-old fourth-year student at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, was arrested on the 10th of this month for beating Chitose Otsuka (79) with a blunt instrument in the garden of a house in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture.
According to the Saga Prefectural Police Headquarters, when he examined Mr. Otsuka's body in detail on the 10th of this month, he confirmed that there were multiple wounds on his head, but it is possible that he had fallen. I was investigating both the incident and the accident because there was no dispute over the body and there was no sighting information of a suspicious person.
A specialist doctor decided to perform a judicial autopsy to examine the body in detail to determine whether it was incidental or not, and contacted the university hospital, but it was not possible to make adjustments immediately and decided to perform an autopsy on the 13th of this month, three days later. It means that it has become.
During this time, the police did not make an emergency deployment and did not alert the surrounding area.
Then, on the 13th of this month, the suspect self-confessed to the police station in Oita City, and was announced as a murder case on the 14th.
Regarding this initial investigation, the Saga Prefectural Police said, "The incidentality cannot be judged only by the result of the judicial autopsy. is.