Cyanide poisoning in Japan

by **Maciamo** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:40 pm

Not a new article but scary anyway...

Cyanide In Curry Poisoning A Mass Murder Bid
The New Straits Times, July 28, 1998

Tokyo (Japan) - Japanese police have mobilised a 150-strong squad to investigate a cyanide-laced curry poisoning that left four people dead at a town's summer festival. Sixty people were also hospitalised in connection with the poisoning. The senseless killing stunned the nation and police feared copy-cat killers could emerge.
Japan noted for its multiple murder cases have experienced deadly cases of cyanide previously.
In 1948, a man posing as a health official walked into a Tokyo Bank saying he was conducting a dysentry check. He used cyanide to poison to death 12 bank staff in an extortion bid.
In 1977, two high school students died after drinking a can of cola tainted with cyanide that was left in a telephone booth.
There have also been several extortion bids in the country in which cyanide was injected into food such as chocolate.

by **Maciamo** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:45 pm

Don't want to be paranoiac, but did you know that nutmeg could be fatal in high dose ? I was a bit worrying since one "ebi-chilli" I've eaten stank nutmeg one-meter away.

nutmeg side effects

by **gomichild** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:24 pm

Nutmeg in warm milk is my Mum's home remedy for the runs.

Be very sparing with the nutmeg though - otherwise you'll be bound up for days! (As one friend found out)

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:49 am

Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld lower court rulings which sentenced a woman to death over a 1998 fatal curry poisoning case in Wakayama Prefecture, dismissing her not-guilty plea and bringing to an end a trial process that has lasted nearly 10 years.

The lower courts convicted Masumi Hayashi, 47, of killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic during a community summer festival in the city of Wakayama. Although there was no direct evidence to prove her involvement, the courts determined circumstantial evidence left no room for doubt ...

by **Midwinter** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:38 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

Although there was no direct evidence to prove her involvement, the courts determined circumstantial evidence left no room for doubt ...

Since when was it possible to find someone guilty based solely on circumstancial evidence? Did they find a 5 kilo bag of Curry brand arsenic in her pantry or something? I'm kind of shocked that anyone would be awarded the death penalty on such a basis so I'm probably missing out on something... even still, it makes you think...

by **canman** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:00 am

You would think that they would err on the side of caution and perhaps give her a life sentence, but not the death penalty, since all the evidence was only circumstantial.

by **Iraira** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:54 am

Midwinter wrote:Since when was it possible to find someone guilty based solely on circumstancial evidence? Did they find a 5 kilo bag of Curry brand arsenic in her pantry or something? I'm kind of shocked that anyone would be awarded the death penalty on such a basis so I'm probably missing out on something... even still, it makes you think...

"They" said that a chemically matching arsenic was found in her residence. These matches are done on the impurities in the chemical in question, and are production site, and sometimes production batch specific. However, anyone in that neighborhood who happened to buy arsenic around the same time she did, would probably match. If her lawyer had a brain, he/she would present data on sales of that brand/batch of arsenic in that area around that time.
Still, why the hell anyone needs arsenic in their pantry is a good question...got rats?

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:35 am

Iraira wrote:"They" said that a chemically matching arsenic was found in her residence. These matches are done on the impurities in the chemical in question, and are production site, and sometimes production batch specific. However, anyone in that neighborhood who happened to buy arsenic around the same time she did, would probably match. If her lawyer had a brain, he/she would present data on sales of that brand/batch of arsenic in that area around that time.
Still, why the hell anyone needs arsenic in their pantry is a good question...got rats?

Maybe her lawyer did and she was the only one.

by **Iraira** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:53 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Maybe her lawyer did and she was the only one.

Good point...hang the bitch who has the nerve to taint curry rice!

Yeah, I said "Taint":D

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:58 am

Iraira wrote:Good point...hang the bitch who has the nerve to taint curry rice!

Yeah, I said "Taint":D

Some people taint curry. I prefer to curry my taint.

by **American Oyaji** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:27 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Some people taint curry. I prefer to curry my taint.

OH no you DIDNT!!!

by **Greji** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:56 pm

American Oyaji wrote:OH no you DIDNT!!!

Taint love but it taint bad!
:cool:

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