ASAHIKAWA, HOKKAIDO \u2013 Prosecutors on Monday demanded a 27-year prison term for a woman suspected of killing a 17-year-old girl in Hokkaido in 2024.<\/p>\n
As the lay judge trial at Asahikawa District Court was concluded the same day after the final defense plea, the verdict will be handed down to the 23-year-old defendant, Riko Uchida, on June 22.<\/p>\n
Public prosecutors have alleged that Uchida and others \u201capplied some physical force\u201d to the high school girl, who was embroiled in a dispute with Uchida over social media photos, so she would fall off a suspension bridge in the city of Asahikawa.<\/p>\n
Even if the girl was not pushed directly, acts leading to her plunge should amount to murder, they argued.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Uchida has said she neither intended to kill the girl nor directly caused her fall, while admitting that the victim was cornered to the point of death by the words and deeds of Uchida and others.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment, on April 18-19,\u00a02024 Uchida conspired with others, including an already convicted 21-year-old woman, to have the victim sit naked on the bridge\u2019s railing before\u00a0recording\u00a0her apology on video and killing\u00a0the girl by forcing her to fall into the river below after shouting \u201cFall!\u201d and \u201cJust die!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASAHIKAWA, HOKKAIDO \u2013 Prosecutors on Monday demanded a 27-year prison term for a woman suspected of killing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[707,153,8,708,1240,3719],"class_list":["post-37065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hokkaido","tag-asahikawa","tag-hokkaido","tag-japan","tag-japanese-courts","tag-social-media","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}