The 52-year-old wakes up at 5am for his shift, with work often stretching into the wee hours of the night.
Hideo Yamada, head of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor s Office, bows to Iwao Hakamada , , and his sister Hideko in Hamamatsu on Wednesday - Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun
“We are very sorry that your legal status had been unstable for a considerable period of time and you had spent your days in an unspeakable distress,” Hideo Yamada, head of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office, told the 88-year-old former death-row inmate at his home in the city of Hamamatsu.
In response, Hakamata’s 91-year-old sister, Hideko, said: “We have no intention of saying anything to the prosecution now. Now we are very happy that his innocence has been confirmed.”
Prosecutor Apologises Iwao Hakamada After Acquittal
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