Post by Linalin on Apr 27, 2005 10:47:06 GMT -5
Hiroshima man gets death sentence for two insurance murders
HIROSHIMA — The Hiroshima District Court sentenced a former company president to death on Wednesday for killing his stepfather and wife in the city of Hiroshima to obtain a total of 73 million yen in life insurance money.
According to the ruling, Kiyotaka Oyama, 43, hit his stepfather Tsutomu, then 66, on the head with a dumbbell at a parking lot in the city in October 1998 in an attempt to obtain 70 million yen in insurance money. Tsutomu died in January 1999. Oyama also drowned his wife Hiromi, 38, in the bathtub at their home in the city to obtain 3 million yen in insurance money, the ruling said. (Kyodo News)
The ugliest form of greed.
HIROSHIMA — The Hiroshima District Court sentenced a former company president to death on Wednesday for killing his stepfather and wife in the city of Hiroshima to obtain a total of 73 million yen in life insurance money.
According to the ruling, Kiyotaka Oyama, 43, hit his stepfather Tsutomu, then 66, on the head with a dumbbell at a parking lot in the city in October 1998 in an attempt to obtain 70 million yen in insurance money. Tsutomu died in January 1999. Oyama also drowned his wife Hiromi, 38, in the bathtub at their home in the city to obtain 3 million yen in insurance money, the ruling said. (Kyodo News)
The ugliest form of greed.
