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Wednesday October 25, 4:13 PMMan divulges another murder in appealing death penalty for 4 murders(Kyodo) _ A 30-year-old man appealing a ruling of death for killing and robbing four people in separate cases in Nagano and Aichi prefectures in 2004 said Wednesday he had killed another woman in Fukushima in 2003.In a hearing at the Tokyo High Court, Shojiro Nishimoto said, "I killed a woman probably in the city of Fukushima in around April or May of 2003," adding that he abandoned her body "in the mountains." "I hit her while inattentively driving a car...(and)...strangled her with a rope as she made a struggle," he said. Nishimoto said during his first appeals court hearing earlier this month that he filed an appeal, while having no objections with the given sentence, to get an opportunity to "tell the truth," and claimed that he had committed more murders, without elaborating. The Nagano District Court in May sentenced Nishimoto to death for stabbing a tax driver in Aichi Prefecture in January 2004, and strangling and stabbing three elderly people living alone at their homes in Nagano Prefecture between April and September that year. Nishimoto stole about 300,000 yen from the four victims and also 10 million yen from a man's house in Nagano Prefecture in another case in September 2003, the ruling said. Nishimoto's defense counsel has sought commutation of the death penalty, saying he turned himself in and confessed to the crimes after being arrested for trespassing. Prosecutors are calling for dismissal of his appeal. |
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