Overview

• A lay-judge panel at Yokohama District Court delivered the sentence on October 3 after a saiban-in trial.
• Prosecutors said the 46-year-old video streamer was given a sleep drug in an Ota Ward apartment in December 2023 and then strangled.
• The body was placed in a suitcase and abandoned on the Kawasaki side of the Tamagawa River, where it was found later that month.
• The court rejected the defense claim that she merely followed her mother's orders, concluding she chose the killing herself and led the crime; the mother is also charged as a co-defendant.
• Prosecutors sought 19 years in prison, but the court imposed a 17-year term.