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A Tokyo court sentenced 30-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi to death Tuesday, who killed and dismembered nine young men. Shiraishi had contacted his victims, eight women and a man between the ages of 15 and 26, through the online service Twitter.
In the process, he made a confession.
On Halloween morning 2017, Japanese police made a gruesome discovery while searching for a missing woman in Shiraishi’s apartment: officers found body parts and hundreds of bone pieces that were stored in freezers and tool boxes. and some were covered with kitty litter. Cover the stench.
According to investigators, Shiraishi had contacted suicidal users on Twitter and promised that he could help them implement their suicide plans or even die with them.
All of his victims had suicidal thoughts.
His lawyers demanded that Shiraishi be sentenced to prison alone. All of his victims had suicidal thoughts and therefore consented to his death, they argued. The judge, instead, said, according to the NHK television channel, when the verdict was pronounced, none of those killed had consented to their death, not even tacitly.
“It is devastating that nine young people have been killed,” the judge said accordingly. “The dignity of the victims was trampled on.”
The verdict against the “Twitter killer” caused quite a stir in Japan: As NHK reported, more than 400 curious people queued outside the courthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday to get one of only 16 aisle seats.
Japan is one of the few industrialized nations that still applies the death penalty. Despite international criticism, the approval of the Japanese population remains high. After a death sentence, it often takes years to execute. A Chinese man was last executed in December 2019 for murdering a family of four in Japan. (AFP)
