Ichihashi CAPTURED!!!!

[Greji]

Oh, no. He knows very well what he is doing. The result of his hunger strike was his transfer from Chiba police station with long hours questionings to the medical facility of the Chiba detention center far from cops. The instant he arrived there he had his lunch.
He is not saying anything because he knows how the system works and it gives him hope. If he confesses, his hope will be gone. That is his tactics. The "sweet boy" (his mom`s words about him) is far to be in the dark.

I think I gotta agree with you on this. I firmly believe he had advice from the family lawyers before he was even caught. That would include not to make any statements and to hold out for transport to a friendlier enviornment. The jurisdiction responsible for the investigation would be the most hostile toward him, so it would obviously be of benefit to get moved out of their immediate reach!

[IkemenTommy]

Oh, no. He knows very well what he is doing. The result of his hunger strike was his transfer from Chiba police station with long hours questionings to the medical facility of the Chiba detention center far from cops. The instant he arrived there he had his lunch.
He is not saying anything because he knows how the system works and it gives him hope. If he confesses, his hope will be gone. That is his tactics. The "sweet boy" (his mom`s words about him) is far to be in the dark.

Maybe he just refused to eat the jail bento that probably tasted like ass.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Maybe he just refused to eat the jail bento that probably tasted like ass.

I've heard he likes the taste of ass....

[IkemenTommy]

I've heard he likes the taste of ass....

Ha, good point there.

[Mulboyne]

I read on other Japan forums that a number of people hope Ichihashi will get the death penalty if convicted. It's not a sentiment I share, although I can understand the reaction.

I thought, though, that there was little chance of such an outcome because a rule of thumb in Japan's justice system is that the death penalty isn't handed down in cases where the convicted has only committed one murder. It can be handed down where there are aggravated circumstances but that doesn't generally include running away or disposing of a body. However, according to recent news, the police have now charged Ichihashi with rape as well as murder which might just satisfy that condition if the accused doesn't mount a defence.

[IkemenTommy]

It's not a sentiment I share, although I can understand the reaction.

I agree. He should get the life without parole in a solitary confinement with intense labor in some freezing ass cold prison.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I read on other Japan forums that a number of people hope Ichihashi will get the death penalty if convicted. It's not a sentiment I share, although I can understand the reaction.

I thought, though, that there was little chance of such an outcome because a rule of thumb in Japan's justice system is that the death penalty isn't handed down in cases where the convicted has only committed one murder. It can be handed down where there are aggravated circumstances but that doesn't generally include running away or disposing of a body. However, according to recent news, the police have now charged Ichihashi with rape as well as murder which might just satisfy that condition if the accused doesn't mount a defence.

I agree with Mulboyne. However much deserved execution may be, it's extremely unlikely that penalty will be sought, even if there is a rape charge involved. Even if it is, the likelihood of the death penalty being handed down by a court is nil.
At most, he will get life imprisonment, which in Japan usually means 12-15 years. If he doesn't talk, they may make him serve consecutive terms for every charge he faces, but even that's unlikely as nearly all those convicted of multiple crimes (even in separate conditions that display a habitual nature) do time concurrently.
It's a sobering thought, but let's not forget that Joji Obara, who killed at least two gaijin women, is only a couple of years away from release. Ichihashi will still be a fairly young man once he's let out.

[dimwit]

I've heard he likes the taste of ass....

Does he? Or is this just the story of some attention seeking gay guy who wanted to claim he had corn holed someone famous but was too young to say it was Rock Hudson.

[Greji]

I agree. He should get the life without parole in a solitary confinement with intense labor in some freezing ass cold prison.

If he gets the Lariat necktie, that'll do me right

[Greji]

".....However, according to recent news, the police have now charged Ichihashi with rape...."

Wonder how many new "Gyarusu" will be joining his fan club when they see this new charge....?

[Mulboyne]

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Props to this guy's handler...if he has one, if not, mad props to him for knowing how to handle the J-mob so well.

[Mulboyne]

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[Samurai_Jerk]

Tucked away in the comment section of this post, Debito has finally conceded that he was wrong to assume that the police decision to charge Ichihashi initially with the lesser offence of illegal disposal of a corpse was racially motivated:



You'll recall that this accusation was one of the central arguments in one of his Japan Times column earlier this year. As far as I can tell, he claims to be convinced after a guy sent him the results of a Google search for the charge in question.

In Debito's defense, not everyone has access to technically advanced evaluation tools like Google.

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[Mike Oxlong]

[tidbits]

Is he hoping people becoming more forgiving in the festive season? I can already read in some comments area that people are saying his intention was not to kill.

He said she was angry about her hair being cut, according to the lawyer.

How clever this lawyer is to put in this way, I am sure Ms Hawker was angry at a whole lot more of things that he had done to her.

[BigInJapan]

I am sure Ms Hawker was angry at a whole lot more of things that he had done to her.

Being tied up, beaten, and raped might have irked her somewhat.
A lot of people won't be happy until this guy is swinging in the breeze.

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

He then strangled her to death and in the meantime, he raped her, the indictment says.

Being Kyodo, I'm never too sure, but is this sentence saying that he raped her after she was strangled? (Grammar Nazi alert to subby: No need to be strangled to death....strangle means to die through choking.) And, how can you have strangled someone and in the meantime raped them?

[Mike Oxlong]

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[Samurai_Jerk]

maybe they should just cut his balls off with a rusty razor blade.

I say use a pit bull for said testicular removal. I'm sure you could train one to sick balls a la "Stand by Me".

[tidbits]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8042868/Japanese-man-apologises-for-death-of-Lindsay-Ann-Hawker-in-letter-to-her-family.html

The Japanese man awaiting trial for the murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker has confessed to his "evil" actions in a letter to her family and apologised for her death.

Tatsuya Ichihashi's four-page letter is written in Japanese and English and was sent to Miss Hawker's family in Britain, but they have refused to accept it because they believe it is a ploy to win leniency from the court when the trial opens next year, The Times reported.

In the letter, Ichihashi admits responsibility for the death of 22-year-old teacher, who was badly beaten before being strangled in the suspect's apartment in the Gyotoku district, east of Tokyo, in March 2007. Miss Hawker's naked body was found buried in sand in a bathtub on the balcony of the apartment.

"I was evil," 31-year-old Ichihashi wrote in the letter addressed to Julia and Bill Hawker, and their two other daughters.
"There is no one to blame but me. I will take the responsibility. I will never forget about her and what I did to her and you. And I will carry my cross until the moment of my death," it reads.
"I am sorry. I am very sorry. I am very sorry. I am very sorry," the letter continues. "I not only destroyed her life but I also changed your lives. What I did to her and you will never be forgiven."
Ichihashi managed to evade eight police officers who arrived at the apartment to question him and was at large for two years and eight months before Japanese police finally apprehended him in the city of Osaka as he was about to board a ferry for the southern islands of Okinawa.
He had been working as a casual labourer and saving money for a series of plastic surgery procedures that had radically altered his appearance.
In a series of pre-trial hearings, Ichihashi's defence team has indicated he will plead guilty to rape, causing injury resulting in death and unlawfully disposing of a body, which carry a sentence of between three and 20 years. Ichihashi will deny murder, however, which can carry the death penalty in Japan.
Ichihashi claims he accidentally crushed Miss Hawker's windpipe when he tried to stop her calling out for help.

[Mulboyne]

2chers are, in general, showing the family some sympathy. Some that the letter may be part of his legal strategy. One writer criticizes judges for taking such things into account and hopes lay judges will act differently. Another says he wouldn't have accepted the letter either.

[IparryU]

I hope he dont get off that easy cause of a stupid letter. a bit late for that.

let him rot in a cell till he croaks, dont let him off easy or give him the death penalty, thats too nice.

[let`s talk]

He killed only one person and she was a foreigner. He will get off easily methinks. Surely no death penalty. Moreover, I doubt he will get a life sentence without parole.

Btw, why "being strangled" is called "injury resulting in death" by his defense team? Am I missing something? He still denies murder.

[IparryU]

He killed only one person and she was a foreigner. He will get off easily methinks. Surely no death penalty. Moreover, I doubt he will get a life sentence without parole.

Btw, why "being strangled" is called "injury resulting in death" by his defense team? Am I missing something? He still denies murder.

I can't say this for sure because of my Japanese level, but i believe they used the term "choke" not "strangle" as he was "not intending to kill" the victim. Hence the "injury resulting in death" BS.

That would be manslaughter, but knowing how the judges here reduce charges like a sale at Sear's, he will be out by the time he can do a proper bow with an apologetic speech that brings tears to the common Japanese eye.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Death penalty is inconceivable. I don't think he's even been charged with murder (which requires intent), but only inflicting bodily injury resulting in death (the Japanese equivalent of manslaughter).
He will probably go for 10-12, with his apology getting him a reduction in his sentence for an appropriate show of remorse. With mum and dad both in the medical profession, I bet he's got pretty good lawyers, too, and he'd really wipe off his jail time if he made a huge compensation payout to the Hawker family like Obara did to Lucy Blackman's father.

[let`s talk]

I can't say this for sure because of my Japanese level, but i believe they used the term "choke" not "strangle" as he was "not intending to kill" the victim. Hence the "injury resulting in death" BS.

Now I remember a couple of months ago J-media wrote that he tried to quiet her down (how exactly he tried?) and as the result she died. They said he even tried mouth-to-mouth to save her life. Yeah, that's BS.