A Japanese high court on Wednesday refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya in 2002. While lawyers of Masaki Tanabe, 56, called for the case to be reopened, claiming his confessions during police questioning…
A Japanese high court on June 7 refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya, central Japan, in 2002.