Tokyo District Courtroom’s Tachikawa department on Friday sentenced a former college scholar to 23 years in jail over a robbery-murder within the metropolis of Komae, western Tokyo, final 12 months in a single case amongst a high-profile sequence of robberies throughout Japan allegedly dedicated by the identical group.
The ruling was the primary on the Komae case. Prosecutors had sought a jail sentence of 25 years.
In response to the ruling, Issei Nakanishi, the 21-year-old former scholar, broke into the home of a 90-year-old girl in Komae, conspiring with folks together with Rikuto Nagata, 22, on Jan. 19, 2023. Nakanishi was celebration to a deadly assault in opposition to the lady and theft of 4 gadgets price some ¥590,000 in complete, together with a luxurious watch.
Within the Komae case, three folks, together with Yuki Watanabe, 40, a pacesetter of a particular fraud group, have been indicted additionally for theft leading to loss of life, for giving directions to perpetrators. The ringleaders glided by names together with “Luffy.”
