How many years were the defendants sentenced for the murder of Chinese sisters in Japan?

Case of murder of Chinese sisters in Japan: The defendant was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

According to news from Japan’s *** News Agency on July 20, the prosecutor requested the death penalty for Japanese unemployed Ryuya Iwasaki (40 years old) who was charged with homicide for allegedly killing a Chinese sister he knew. , the Yokohama District Court issued a sentence of 23 years in prison on the 20th.

Japan’s *** News Agency earlier reported that Japanese unemployed Ryuya Iwasaki (40 years old) was charged with homicide and other crimes for allegedly killing a Chinese sister he knew. He was held at a public trial in the Yokohama District Court on July 11. , the prosecutor requested that the defendant be sentenced to death on the grounds that it was a "planned act of extreme cruelty."

On July 3, the Yokohama District Court held the first public trial of the case. The defendant Ryuya Iwasaki denied all the prosecution content.

The defendant Iwasaki Ryuya

The public trial will first be presented by the prosecutor. The prosecutor said that the defendant Iwasaki frequently visited the restaurant where the two sisters surnamed Chen worked and had a good impression of his sister. However, the defendant became dissatisfied and had murderous intentions after having a dispute with him. The prosecutor believed that Iwasaki not only killed his sister, but also killed his sister together, which reflected that he had already made a plan and had a clear intention to kill.

Iwasaki’s defense lawyer stated that the defendant was in a relationship with his sister at the time and had no motive for the murder. The defendant also claimed that because his sister's visa to stay in Japan had expired, in order to continue to stay in Japan, he thought of "pretending to be missing" and then entered the travel bag on his own. What the defendant did was provide some assistance by taking the box to its requested location and had nothing to do with the killing.

It is reported that the trial of this case ended on July 11, 2018 local time, and the verdict is expected to be pronounced on July 20.

The two sisters who were victims were named Chen Baolan and Chen Baozhen. In 2009, my sister came to Japan as an international student and graduated in March 2017. During her lifetime, she worked part-time in a restaurant in Yokohama. My younger sister came to Japan in 2012 and studied at a vocational school that made game software. Both are from Fuqing, Fujian Province, and live together in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

On the evening of July 11, 2017, local time, his family asked the Chinese Embassy in Japan for help, reporting that they had lost contact. The embassy later reported that the Japanese police arrested the suspect in the case on suspicion of illegal detention and suspected abandonment of remains.

Earlier indictments showed that on July 6, 2017, Iwasaki broke into the apartment in Naka-ku, Yokohama where Chen Baolan (then 25 years old) and his sister Chen Baozhen (then 22 years old) lived, and oppressed them He was killed by the neck, and the body was carried out in a travel bag and abandoned in the forest of Qinno City, Kanagawa Prefecture the next day.

Source: Phoenix News