Tuesday 24 April 2007

98% of prosecutions result in a conviction in Japan yet Lucie Blackman's killer was acquitted!

They found one of her hairs in his condominium; there, they also found the receipt for the chainsaw which sliced up her body; they traced an anonymous phone call to her friend ("Lucie has joined a cult and will not be back") to his mobile phone; she was found encased in concrete in a cave 250 metres away from his condo; he was a frequent visitor of the club she worked at; police found over 200 sex videos in his apartment (many of which appeared to show him raping unconscious women); he was already under investigation for the rape of two foreign and two Japanese women yet:

"The court cannot prove that he single-handedly was involved in her death," Presiding Judge Tsutomu Tochigi told the Tokyo District Court.

"What is clear is that the victim was together with the accused and then vanished and next was found dead."

Oh and the suspect in the Lindsay Hawker case (the suspect who fled from his apartment in front of eight policemen) hasn't been sighted since.

The jurisdictive rot in Japan is truly repulsive.





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