21-year-old will get 23 years over robbery-murder in western Tokyo

Tokyo District Court’s Tachikawa department on Friday sentenced a former college scholar to 23 years in jail over a robbery-murder within the metropolis of Komae, western Tokyo, final yr in a single case amongst a high-profile collection of robberies throughout Japan allegedly dedicated by the identical group.

The ruling was the primary on the Komae case. Prosecutors had sought a jail sentence of 25 years.

According to the ruling, Issei Nakanishi, the 21-year-old former scholar, broke into the home of a 90-year-old girl in Komae, conspiring with folks together with Rikuto Nagata, 22, on Jan. 19, 2023. Nakanishi was party to a deadly assault in opposition to the lady and theft of 4 objects price some ¥590,000 in whole, together with a luxurious watch.

In the Komae case, three folks, together with Yuki Watanabe, 40, a pacesetter of a particular fraud group, have been indicted additionally for theft leading to loss of life, for giving directions to perpetrators. The ringleaders glided by names together with “Luffy.”