TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested our individuals, together with the president of an organization, for allegedly forcing a male colleague to enter a railway crossing and inflicting him to be hit and killed by an oncoming prepare final yr.
Based on police, paining firm president Manabu Sasaki, 39, and workers Akihito Shimabata, 34, Shunta Nozaki, 39, and Atsuya Iwade, 30, made the incident look like a suicide.
On the evening of December 2, 2023, the suspects are accused of conspiring to kidnap their co-worker, Osamu Takano, then 56, from his dwelling and confining him inside a automotive.
They then brought on his dying by having him enter a Tobu Tojo Line railroad crossing in Itabashi Ward at round 12:10 a.m. the next day in order that he can be hit and killed by a prepare.
The fees are confinement and homicide, reviews the Mainichi Shimbun (Dec. 9). Police haven’t revealed whether or not the 4 have admitted to the allegations.
“Takano entered into the railroad crossing of his personal accord”
When police checked safety cameras within the space after the incident, they discovered an individual believed to be Takano getting out of a automotive parked subsequent to the crossing and strolling alone into the crossing. This led police think about {that a} crime had been dedicated.
Sasaki and the opposite three suspects visited Takano’s house in Itabashi Ward simply after 10 p.m. on December 2. After staying there for round an hour and a half, they took him out of their automotive. Sasaki and Iwade parted methods alongside the way in which, whereas Shimahata, Nozaki and Takano headed to the crime scene.
The automotive carrying Takano and the others stopped on a bridge over the Arakawa River on the border between Itabashi Ward and Saitama Prefecture. There was an audio recording on Nozaki’s smartphone that means he compelled Takano to leap into the river from the bridge. When he refused, they headed to the railroad crossing.
Shimahata and Nozaki defined throughout voluntary questioning earlier than their arrest that “Takano entered into the railroad crossing of his personal accord.”
A video was additionally discovered on the suspects’ smartphones confirmed the 4 of them assaulting Takano every day, together with tying his arms and ft and hitting his decrease physique with a hammer. The abuse dates again to a minimum of the summer time of 2023, police mentioned.
Primarily based on this proof, police have determined that the 4, together with Sasaki and Iwade, who weren’t accompanying the suspects, is also charged with homicide.
The info storage card from the dashcam within the automotive that took Takano out on the day of the incident, in addition to Takano’s private belongings, haven’t been discovered. Police consider that the 4 could have tried to destroy proof.
