Pinoy admits to rape-slay of female student in Japan


Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 17 2018 01:33 PM
MITO, Japan - A 36-year-old Filipino man arrested last year admitted Tuesday to raping and murdering a female university student in eastern Japan in January 2004.
During his first court hearing, Lampano Jerico Mori admitted his crimes against the 21-year-old woman, then a second-year Ibaraki University student, but the defense team expressed an intention to contest part of his charges such as the number of knife stabs he committed.
According to the indictment, Mori conspired with two juveniles and snatched the woman into a car on a street near the town of Ami, Ibaraki Prefecture, before sexually assaulting and choking her in the early hours of Jan. 31, 2004. They then killed her by stabbing her multiple times with a knife at a riverbank in the neighboring village of Miho.
Last September, police arrested Mori, who was working at a factory in Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. They have placed his two Filipino accomplices, now aged 34 and 32 but who were minors under Japanese law at the time of the killing, on an international wanted list.
But there are slim prospects of the police being able to build a case against the two Filipinos as both of them left Japan after the murder.
In the trial at the Mito District Court, prosecutors said a DNA sample almost matching that of the defendant was found on the hand of the woman.
The prosecutors also said Mori confessed to the murder to the mother of one of his accomplices in March 2007.
The defense counsel claimed that Mori, still a "young man" at that time, "escalated" his action because he was influenced by his accomplices.
The counsel said Mori, who was then working at an electronic parts factory in Miho, is now reflecting on his wrongdoing and is willing to pay for what he did.

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