China News Service, April 20. According to Kyodo News Agency's report on the 20th, on the 19th local time, the Tokyo High Court sentenced Ryu Iwasaki, an unemployed person in Yokohama, Japan, who was accused of murdering a Chinese sister and was charged with murder and abandoning the body, to life imprisonment. .
According to reports, in the first-instance judgment in July 2018, the Yokohama District Court, because of its emphasis on the defendant's failure to use a murder weapon, committed "a single murder case that did not use a murder weapon to kill multiple people, and there was no case in which the death penalty or life imprisonment was sentenced in a jury trial." On the grounds, he chose to sentence the defendant to 23 years in prison.
In this regard, the Tokyo High Court's second-instance judgment remanded the case to the district court for retrial on the grounds that "the cases on which the fixed-term imprisonment was imposed in the first instance were all cases between relatives and were completely different from the type of homicide in this case."
This judgment of the High Court was followed in the retrial process of the case.
According to the judgment and other documents, the defendant Iwasaki broke into the residence of Chen Baolan (then 25 years old) and his sister Chen Baozhen (then 22 years old) in Yokohama City on July 6, 2017, pressing the necks of the two to death.
The two bodies were later dumped in the mountains and forests of Kanagawa Prefecture.