Dead Man Indicted for Murder
This is a strange one. Osaka Prefectural Police have indicted a 26 year old man for killing his wife and two daughters at their apartment before committing suicide in Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, in June. The man is already dead, and is being charged with murder!
A jogger found the body of Kyohei Akiyama, under a pedestrian bridge about one kilometer from the family’s apartment. Police were called and Mr. Akiyama was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 26 year old wife and two daughters, aged two and one, were found stabbed to death in their apartment by police, when they visited the address on the man/husband’s drivers license. A note saying “I’m sorry” was found in the living room of the apartment. According to police, the man had quit his job and was in a mentally unstable condition.
It seems that in Japan, it is not uncommon for a deceased person to be charged with a crime. The reason is to officially document that the case is closed. Does this happen in any other country?
4 comments:
There is a lot of red tape in Japan. It tangles up easily, but the aim for the authorities is to untangle it, iron it into a crisp ribbon and finally tie up the case that caused the tangle in a beautiful, straight bow.
I can not imagine a case like this happening in Sweden.
I've never heard of that before, but it does make sense. Somehow cases need to be closed. That's a very tragic case.
I have never heard of this before either.
I've never heard of that before (well, other than the British post-humously executing Cromwell, I think?), but it makes sense to get some official closure in cases like this.
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