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A 30-year-old Japanese man, dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’, was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court on Tuesday for the murder of nine people he met online, a judicial official said.
Takahiro Shiraishi was “sentenced to death,” the source said, without elaborating. At trial, Shiraishi admitted that he had murdered and dismembered eight women and one man, between 15 and 26 years of age.
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Shirashi’s lawyers had asked for life imprisonment, claiming that the victims, who expressed their suicidal tendencies on social media, they had consented to being killed. This allegation, even objected to by the accused himself, was rejected by the court.
“None of the nine victims asked to be killed, not even tacitly,” the judge held, according to public television channel NHK.
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The magistrate described the events as “extremely serious” and considered that the “dignity” of the victims had been “trampled on.”
Tahahiro Shiraishi, after receiving the death sentence.
Shiraishi captured his victims on the social network Twitter, telling them that he could help them carry out their suicide plans and even die at his side. Shiraishi was also on trial for dismembering his victims and storing their remains in refrigerators in his small apartment in Zama, a southwestern suburb of Tokyo.
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On October 31, 2017, police discovered 240 human body fragments stored in refrigerators or toolboxes covered in kitty litter to hide the smell they gave off. The last execution in Japan – that of a Chinese man responsible for the murder of four people from the same family in 2003 – took place a year ago.
AFP
