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Police in Saitama have arrested a 70-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 30-year-old woman with whom he lived by beating her with a golf club.
According to police,Yoshio Uchida is accused of beating Akina Chiba with a golf club early Sunday morning while she was asleep at their apartment, Kyodo News reported. Uchida called 119 and said that he had hit a woman in the face and that she was unconscious.
Chiba was taken to hospital where she died later.
Police said Uchida and Chiba had been living together for several years. Uchida has so far given no motive for killing Chiba, police said.
© Japan Today
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virusrex
Taking advantage of the victim when she was more vulnerable, not much room for leniency for the criminal.
shogun36
Big man……
602miko
Daughter, relatives, what? Why living together live in?
Good
How sad. Strangeness of circumstances don't matter.
Lindsay
We’re they living together as a couple or just sharing the house? What’s the bet they were a couple and she wanted to end the relationship.
Fighto!
Evil and sick old man. Now spend the last days of your useless life where you belong - in jail. Hope it's torture in there.
Rest in Peace to the poor young woman.
David Brent
Another perfectly healthy Japanese relationship!
Meiyouwenti
The world is a mysterious place. What did the 30 year old woman see in the man who was 40 years her senior?
Mr Kipling
A couple of questions come to mind...
70 and 30 years old? What was their relationship?
And golf club? Was it a wood or iron? Probably about a 7 iron or above is my guess.
WilliB
Most 70 year olds would be deliriously happy to have a 30 yr old girlfriend... this nutcase murders her.
therougou
Maybe she was cheating on him with an 85 year-old.
kaimycahl
Not enough information here to trash the women. Perhaps she was his granddaughter or niece who was taking care of him. We don't know there is a lot of information left out here so how can the JT jury convict this lady?
JTC
@kaimychal - agreed.
@therougou - and maybe she told him the night before, that she was pregnant ? Or maybe even, he was practicing his Golf swing beside the bed ? Who knows.... we can all but speculate upon motives ?
Do note, however, it was he, who called the Police. Also, the article has a discrepancy - "Beating" - suggests striking more than once, however he is reported to have said that he had "Hit her in face" - which implies a singular blow... so which was it ?
Yrral
Japanese is safe really,lots of murders go unclassified like corpse abandonment
Strangerland
That's an incorrect conclusion. You clearly don't understand how it works. Google it.