MIYAGI (TR) – A 32-year-old man on trial right here over the alleged homicide of an acquaintance and the destruction and abandonment of his corpse and different fees in Sendai Metropolis in 2022 has admitted to the allegations.
On the Sendai District Court docket on October 17, Koki Maeda, of no recognized occupation, admitted to murdering Daiki Sato, 22, dismembering the physique and burying it. “There isn’t any mistake,” he informed the courtroom, based on Kyodo Information (Oct. 17).
In line with the indictment, Maeda conspired together with his roommate and boyfriend Yu Yamaguchi, 33, to strangle Sato with a towel-like object contained in the house the three of them shared in Aoba Ward on November 10, 2022.
Over a two-day interval beginning on November 12, 2022, the pair are stated to have dismembered Sato’s physique with a chainsaw, put it in a suitcase and buried it in Wakabayashi Ward.
The case, which emerged when each defendants turned themselves over to the Aomori Prefectural Police in December 2022, is a darkish story of a soured relationship that finally resulted in fraud, assault and, finally, homicide.
Grew to become shut buddies
October 17, Maeda entered the courtroom in a wheelchair. In line with his lawyer, he suffered a cardiac arrest episode after his arrest. He had brief black hair, was sporting a navy blue tracksuit prime to backside, and was seen to have tattoos on the backs of his fingers, fingers and neck, based on TBS Information (Oct. 19).
Since Maeda is deaf in each ears, the trial started with a written interpreter. All informed, Maeda has been accused of assault, coercion, homicide, destruction and abandonment of a corpse, blackmail and fraud.
Maeda’s registered tackle is in Minami-Alps Metropolis, Yamanashi Prefecture. After graduating from junior highschool, he modified jobs a number of occasions. He had been in a relationship together with his confederate, Yu Yamaguchi, for 4 years and lived collectively within the house in Aoba Ward.
Maeda frequented a bar within the Kokubuncho space of Aoba Ward, the place Sati labored. They then turned shut buddies.
Maeda was keen on Sato, who handled him kindly regardless of his listening to loss. To specific his love for him, Sato used the time period aniki (large brother) to discuss with Maeda.
Bodily and mentally cornered
Round July 2022, Maeda started to usually convey Sato to his house, the place he lived with Yamaguchi. Shortly thereafter, the three of them started dwelling collectively. Yamaguchi then turned sad with this.
The home quickly fell aside. In August 2022, Maeda heard that Sato was making enjoyable of his incapacity. Angered, Maeda started to assault Sato. He additionally made the Sato lie in order that he extort cash that he had borrowed from his father and buddies.
Nevertheless, round October to November 2022 the stream of extorted funds stopped. Maeda then escalated the assaults.
Maeda injured Sato by stabbing him within the leg with the tip of an electrical screwdriver, and compelled him to decide on between leaving the home they shared or consuming feces. Feeling bodily and mentally cornered by Yamaguchi and others, Sato was unable to withstand.
On November 10, 2022, Maeda broke his toe throughout one of many assaults. He went to the hospital with Yamaguchi, and when he returned dwelling, Sato was discovered collapsed resulting from a seizure attributable to his persistent epilepsy.
Consequently, the house was in cluttered state, which enraged Yamaguchi. The 2 then strangled Sato to demise.
Between November 12 and 14, they dismembered the physique within the rest room of their dwelling with the chainsaw. They put the dismembered corpse in a suitcase and took a taxi to the Arahama district of Wakabayashi, the place they dumped it.
Sato’s coronary heart and lungs stopped
Of their opening assertion, the protection stated that they might not contest the homicide allegations (or many of the different crimes Maeda is accused of). However they did defend Maeda’s actions on the time.
Overcome with regret, Maeda tried to carry out a life-saving measure after Sato’s coronary heart and lungs stopped, the protection stated. The defendant additionally tried to show himself in, however gave up after Yamaguchi requested he not do it.
Nevertheless, the protection did contest the cost of coercion, whereby Maeda allegedly pressured Sato to eat feces. They argued, “Maeda proposed the situation to get Sato, who was sleeping in the identical room, to maneuver out of the house, and so coercion didn’t happen.”
Concerning allegations of fraud, Maeda and Yamaguchi defrauded the chums of the sufferer. As a result of they wanted cash to maneuver out of the house the place the homicide befell, they defrauded his buddies out of a complete of 1.05 million yen after which moved from place to position.
Crime would finally be found
The trigger surfaced in December 2022. Affected by acute hepatitis whereas in Aomori, Maeda used the Sato’s medical insurance card to impersonate him and enter a hospital.
Nevertheless, he turned himself in to the police, considering that the crime would finally be found anyway.
On the first listening to on October 17, the prosecution and protection made opening statements that lasted about an hour. Simply because the trial was about to renew after a 30-minute recess, Maeda complained of feeling unwell, inflicting the trial to be minimize brief sooner than scheduled.
The decision will likely be handed down on November 7. Yamaguchi’s trial has not but begun.
