TOKYO (AFP): The man accused of the 2016 murder of 19 disabled people a a Japanese care home goes on trial Wednesday (Jan 8) in a case that ranks among the country's worst mass killings.
In this file photo taken on July 27, 2016 murder suspect Satoshi Uematsu sits in the back seat of a police vehicle as he returns to the Tsukui police station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture. - AFP
Uematsu reportedly said he wanted to eradicate all disabled people in the horrifying July 26 attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-en centre in the town of Sagamihara outside Tokyo. It emerged later that Uematsu had left his job at the home just months before the attack, and had been forcibly hospitalised after telling colleagues he intended to kill disabled people at the centre.He faces six charges, including murder, and faces the death penalty if convicted on some of the counts.
Despite his statements, his lawyers reportedly plan to enter a plea of not guilty on Uematsu's behalf, arguing he was unable to tell right from wrong at the time of the attack because he was on drugs.In a recent interview with the Jiji Press agency, Uematsu said he would not deny in court having carried out the attack.
Uematsu appeared to have been open about his prejudices well before the attack, even delivering a letter to the speaker of the lower house of parliament in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people.
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