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A Japanese serial killer dubbed the 'Twitter killer' was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court today for murdering and dismembering nine people he met online.


Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing and butchering eight women and one man, aged between 15 and 26, who he met on the social media platform.


The female victims were also found to be have been sexually assaulted.


His lawyers had argued he should receive a prison sentence rather than the death penalty because his victims expressed suicidal thoughts on social media and so had consented to death.


But the death sentence was handed down to Shiraishi today after the court found him criminally responsible for their deaths.



'None of the nine victims consented to be killed, including silent consent,' Presiding Judge Naokuni Yano said.


'It is extremely grave that the lives of nine young people were taken away. The dignity of the victims was trampled upon.'


Yano described the murders as 'extremely vicious in crime history' and ruled Shiraishi was mentally fit to be held responsible for them.


The father of one 25-year-old victim said in court last month that he 'will never forgive Shiraishi even if he dies.'


He said 'Even now, when I see a woman of my daughter's age, I mistake her for my daughter. This pain will never go away. Give her back to me.'



Police uncovered a grisly house of horrors behind Shiraishi's front door in Zama, Kanagawa, on the morning of Halloween in 2017. 


Nine dismembered bodies, with as many as 240 bone parts stashed in coolers and toolboxes, had been sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence.


On Twitter, his profile featured a manga drawing of a man whose neck and wrist were scarred, with a rope around his neck.


His Twitter handle roughly translated as 'hangman', and his bio described his expertise in the practice of hanging. 


The profile explained: 'I want to help people who are really in pain. 


'Please DM me anytime.'


In a post made on October 21, Shiraishi wrote: 'Bullying is everywhere, in school and at work.


'There must be many people in society who are suffering after attempting suicides, though their cases are not reported in the news. 


'I want to help such people.'


Some 435 people turned up to watch the verdict today, even though the court only had 16 seats available for the public. 


Reports in 2017 said his first victim was a woman whom he got in touch with via Twitter, offering to assist her suicide wish, then killing her boyfriend to silence him.


They said Shiraishi used similar tactics to kill seven other women. 


The reports explained one of the women contacted Shiraishi via Twitter in late September, seeking a partner for a suicide pact and saying she was afraid to die alone.


The two were recorded by security cameras walking together outside railway stations near her residence and the suspect's apartment.


The woman's brother reported her disappearance to police the next day. 


When he sought information about his sister's disappearance on Twitter, an unidentified woman replied that she had met Shiraishi and agreed to cooperate with police by setting up a fake appointment.


Two investigators then followed Shiraishi back to his apartment and knocked on the door.


When they asked him if he knew where the missing woman was, Shiraishi pointed to one of eight coolers, saying 'She is in here.'



Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk

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Japan Twitter killer sentenced to death for nine murders


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A Japanese serial killer dubbed the 'Twitter killer' was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court today for murdering and dismembering nine people he met online.


Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing and butchering eight women and one man, aged between 15 and 26, who he met on the social media platform.


The female victims were also found to be have been sexually assaulted.


His lawyers had argued he should receive a prison sentence rather than the death penalty because his victims expressed suicidal thoughts on social media and so had consented to death.


But the death sentence was handed down to Shiraishi today after the court found him criminally responsible for their deaths.



'None of the nine victims consented to be killed, including silent consent,' Presiding Judge Naokuni Yano said.


'It is extremely grave that the lives of nine young people were taken away. The dignity of the victims was trampled upon.'


Yano described the murders as 'extremely vicious in crime history' and ruled Shiraishi was mentally fit to be held responsible for them.


The father of one 25-year-old victim said in court last month that he 'will never forgive Shiraishi even if he dies.'


He said 'Even now, when I see a woman of my daughter's age, I mistake her for my daughter. This pain will never go away. Give her back to me.'



Police uncovered a grisly house of horrors behind Shiraishi's front door in Zama, Kanagawa, on the morning of Halloween in 2017. 


Nine dismembered bodies, with as many as 240 bone parts stashed in coolers and toolboxes, had been sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence.


On Twitter, his profile featured a manga drawing of a man whose neck and wrist were scarred, with a rope around his neck.


His Twitter handle roughly translated as 'hangman', and his bio described his expertise in the practice of hanging. 


The profile explained: 'I want to help people who are really in pain. 


'Please DM me anytime.'


In a post made on October 21, Shiraishi wrote: 'Bullying is everywhere, in school and at work.


'There must be many people in society who are suffering after attempting suicides, though their cases are not reported in the news. 


'I want to help such people.'


Some 435 people turned up to watch the verdict today, even though the court only had 16 seats available for the public. 


Reports in 2017 said his first victim was a woman whom he got in touch with via Twitter, offering to assist her suicide wish, then killing her boyfriend to silence him.


They said Shiraishi used similar tactics to kill seven other women. 


The reports explained one of the women contacted Shiraishi via Twitter in late September, seeking a partner for a suicide pact and saying she was afraid to die alone.


The two were recorded by security cameras walking together outside railway stations near her residence and the suspect's apartment.


The woman's brother reported her disappearance to police the next day. 


When he sought information about his sister's disappearance on Twitter, an unidentified woman replied that she had met Shiraishi and agreed to cooperate with police by setting up a fake appointment.


Two investigators then followed Shiraishi back to his apartment and knocked on the door.


When they asked him if he knew where the missing woman was, Shiraishi pointed to one of eight coolers, saying 'She is in here.'



Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk

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