A year ago, the Tokyo District Court said, ``I stabbed a man and stabbed him. Not guilty."
Ryota Sakai (23), who is unemployed, was acquitted.
In August 2018, a man was stabbed with a knife in an apartment in Adachi Ward and was seriously injured. Both were charged with attempted murder.
Defendant Sakai claimed innocence at the trial, saying, ``I went to the scene but did not stabb him,'' while prosecutors demanded a 10-year prison sentence.
In the ruling on the 13th, presiding judge Iichiro Sakata of the Tokyo District Court said, "We cannot deny the possibility that another man who accompanied the victim stabbed him, and it cannot be recognized that the defendant stabbed him. A third party who did not know him. Regarding the story of the murder request from , the defendant did not recognize it as a realistic story, and the conspiracy was not established.
In this case, the victim's man's wife was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the first trial and appealed, and the man who was also indicted for stabbing the man was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Hiroshi Morimoto, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, commented on the ruling, ``I would like to thoroughly consider the contents of the ruling and deal with it appropriately.''