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Ex-cop appeals sentence over harsh interrogation in Kagoshima vote-buying c
2008-04-02 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}FUKUOKA -- A former assistant police inspector who was handed a suspended prison sentence for forcing a suspect in a vote-buying investigation to trample on paper bearing his family members' names has filed an appeal against the sentence.The 45-year-old former officer, Takahiro Hamada, was convicted of cruelty and violence by a special public officer and sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment, suspended for three years, in a ruling at the Fukuoka District Court. He f ...
Kagoshima man says he killed parents over money troubles
2007-12-05 00:00:00 KAGOSHIMA -- A man who has admitted to killing his parents says he was motivated by money troubles that existed between them, police said.Shuta Gotanda, 26, has been arrested for the illegal disposal of the bodies of his parents, 55-year-old father Kazuyoshi and 54-year-old mother Kyoko, but has allegedly told investigators he killed him.The bodies were unearthed from the backyard of the family's Kagoshima home over the weekend.Gotanda has told investigators t ...
Kagoshima man hints at having killed parents
2007-12-03 00:00:00 KAGOSHIMA -- A man who hinted at having killed his parents has been arrested here, police said.Shuta Gotanda, 26, was arrested for the illegal disposal of the bodies of his parents, 55-year-old father, Kazuyoshi, and 54-year-old mother, Kyoko. Gotanda is expected to be charged with his parents' murder.Police said statements from Gotanda led them to his parents' bodies buried in the back yard of the family home and that he had hinted at having killed them.Polic ... |
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