Takahiro Shiraishi, the Twitter killer -
Masato YAMASHITA / JIJI PRESS / AFP
A 30-year-old Japanese man was sentenced Tuesday by a Tokyo court to death for having murdered in 2017 nine people he had successively lured to his home after spotting them on Twitter.
"The death penalty has been pronounced," said a court official without giving further details.
The accused, Takahiro Shiraishi, admitted during his trial that he killed and dismembered nine people aged 15 to 26, including eight women.
Sordid facts
It was on Halloween morning in 2017 that the police discovered a house of horrors at Takahiro Shiraishi's: nine dismembered bodies with no less than 240 pieces of bone hidden in coolers and toolboxes, sprinkled with litter. for cat to try to cover up the evidence.
The man is believed to have lured victims aged 15 to 26 with suicidal tendencies via Twitter by telling them that he could help them with their plans or even die alongside them.
Police arrested Takahiro Shiraishi in October 2017 while investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who allegedly tweeted that she wanted to kill herself.
After the disappearance of the young woman, her brother would have managed to connect to his Twitter account and would have noticed a suspicious username in his exchanges.
As with the other victims, he then invited him to his home, to his apartment.
Shiraishi told the court that he killed them to satisfy his sexual desire, Japanese media reported.
The defendant does not intend to appeal the verdict and will have to wait on death row until the Japanese Minister of Justice signs the execution order, an execution carried out by hanging in Japan.
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