SHIMANE —
The Hiroshima High Court has upheld a death sentence handed down in December 2012 for a former bar hostess convicted for murdering two men in Tottori Prefecture in 2009.
The Tottori District Court had sentenced Miyuki Ueta, 40, to death for murdering Kazumi Yabe, 47, a truck driver, and Hideki Maruyama, 57, a store owner, NTV reported. Ueta owed both men money, the court heard. Yabe drowned in the sea, while Maruyama met a similar fate in a river. Autopsies revealed that both men had been drugged before they went into the water.
A panel of six lay judges handed down the guilty ruling in the 75-day trial.
Lawyers for Ueta, who admitted to defrauding the two men but denied killing them, appeal the ruling, claiming the prosecution’s case was based solely on circumstantial evidence, NTV reported.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/death-sentence-upheld-for-former-bar-hostess-who-killed-2-men
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