The family of the murdered Vietnamese girls attends a press conference (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A Japanese court on March 23upheld a life sentence for Yasumasa Shibuya over the 2017 murder of a9-year-old Vietnamese girl named Le Thi Nhat Linh.
Prosecutors and the victim’s family had sought the deathpenalty for Shibuya.
The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by Shibuya, the49-year-old former head of a parent’s group at Mutsumi Daini Elementary Schoolin Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, over the murder of Linh who was a third-grader atthe school.
It also rejected the defense claim that DNA evidence usedto convict him should be excluded as it was collected through illegal means, reported Kyodo News.
According to the Chiba District Court ruling in July 2018,Shibuya abducted Linh while she was on her way to school on March 24, 2017. Herbody was found near a drainage ditch in the city of Abiko, Chiba Prefecture,two days later.
The district court sentenced Shibuya to life in prison onthe basis that his DNA was found on the victim's body, while blood found in hiscar contained the girl's DNA.
But in an appeal trial that began in September 2019, thedefense team argued cigarette butts used for DNA profiling should have beeninadmissible as they were obtained without a search warrant from a garbagecollection site at the condo where Shibuya lived.
They asked that the sentence be quashed and Shibuyaacquitted.
Prosecutors had countered that the investigation methodwas legal as the cigarette butts had been discarded and were found among thedefendant's garbage at an unlocked collection site./.
Japanese prosecutors have demanded a death penalty for Yasumasa Shibuya, a Japanese man who has been accused of murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba prefecture on March 24 last year.
A Japanese court on July 6 sentenced Yasumasa Shibuya to life in prison over the 2017 murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba prefecture, according to the Kyodo news agency.
The Tokyo High Court on September 26 began hearing an appeal against a lower court ruling that sentenced a Japanese man to life in prison over the murder of a Vietnamese girl in 2017.
The Tokyo High Court on January 31 began the second hearing in an appeal trial against a lower court ruling that sentenced a Japanese man to life in prison over the murder of a Vietnamese girl in 2017.
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The family of the murdered Vietnamese girls attends a press conference (Photo: VNA) 
