Man sentenced to death for killing 4 family members, neighbor
Dec. 12, 2020
06:22 am JST
Dec. 12, 2020 | 04:05 pm JST
KAGOSHIMA
The Kagoshima District Court on Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to death for killing four members of his family and a neighbor in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, in 2018.
According to the ruling, Tomohiro Iwakura strangled his grandmother Hisako, 89, and his father Masatomo, 68, between March 31 and April 1 at Hisako's home. He then took their bodies to a mountainous area nearby.
Iwakura later also strangled one of his aunts -- Takako Iwakura, 69, and her sister Kuniko Sakaguchi, 72 -- as well as his neighbor Hiroyuki Goto, 47, when they came to check on Hisako on the afternoon of April 6.