Father of woman accused of 2023 Sapporo murder given suspended sentence

Father of woman accused of 2023 Sapporo murder given suspended sentence

The key issue of the trial was whether he was aware of his daughter's plan to murder the victim in advance.

Father convicted of aiding daughter in beheading of man in Sapporo

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a man to one year and four months in prison, suspended for four years, for helping his daughter commit murder and behead the victim at a hotel in Sapporo in 2023. During his trial at the Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido, 61-year-old psychiatrist Osamu Tamura pleaded not guilty to assisting in the murder of a male company worker who had allegedly met his daughter Runa, 31, at a nightclub about a month bef…