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19/03/2013
Japanese Court Finds 19-Year-Old Guilty Of Nicola Furlong Murder
19-year-old American musician Richard Hinds has been found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in jail at Tokyo District Court for strangling Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong.
A nine-member panel of judges called the murder, which happened May 24 last year, "atrocious and vicious in nature", saying Hinds’s account of what happened was "not credible."
"The defendant has continually given irrational explanations in his defence that have dishonoured the victim," said the lead judge Masaharu Ashizawa, delivering a verdict of "not less than five and no more than 10 years," with labour.
The sentence was the maximum allowed under Japanese law because Hinds is a minor. "The tendency of sentencing in juvenile crimes (means) we cannot choose the death penalty or life sentence," said the judge, acknowledging that the Furlong family’s demand for harsher sentencing was "very understandable."
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A nine-member panel of judges called the murder, which happened May 24 last year, "atrocious and vicious in nature", saying Hinds’s account of what happened was "not credible."
"The defendant has continually given irrational explanations in his defence that have dishonoured the victim," said the lead judge Masaharu Ashizawa, delivering a verdict of "not less than five and no more than 10 years," with labour.
The sentence was the maximum allowed under Japanese law because Hinds is a minor. "The tendency of sentencing in juvenile crimes (means) we cannot choose the death penalty or life sentence," said the judge, acknowledging that the Furlong family’s demand for harsher sentencing was "very understandable."
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