KAGOSHIMA A court here denied a fourth request for a retrial from a 95-year-old woman who served a 10-year prison term for a murder she has long claimed she never committed.
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.