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Police in Tokyo have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 40-year-old wife in January by poisoning her with methanol.
According to police, Keisuke Yoshida, who works in the research department for pharmaceutical maker Daiichi Sankyo Co, is accused of giving his wife Yoko the methanol at their apartment in Ota Ward between Jan 14 and 16, Kyodo News reported. Yoshida called 119 on the morning of Jan 16 and said his wife had lost consciousness. She was taken to hospital where she died later that day.
A subsequent autopsy showed the cause of death to be methanol poisoning but was unable to determine how it was ingested.
Police said Yoshida has admitted that he and his wife were not happily married but denied killing her.
© Japan Today
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noriahojanen
I've got the same impression. An elite couple ended up a tragedy. But the means of killing was somehow pretty rudimentary despite their professional backgrounds.
garypen
Do you think only the "poors" commit murder?
virusrex
Really weird crime, methanol poisoning is not going to be confused with any usual health problem and it is relatively easy to confirm by laboratory tests, which means the crime would be discovered without doubt. With the husband having easy access to the substance because of his work this would immediately make him the prime suspect. In a way it feels like trying to kill the victim without fail even if surely caught afterwards.
Stephen Chin
Keisuke should be condemned to be given methanol until he dies. An eye for an eye.
James
Innocent till proven guilty. Just because he was arrested doesn't mean he did it. Unhappy marriage thought their was no other way so committed suicide perhaps.
Some hand sanitizers use methanol so not hard to get perhaps she had been knocking some back over time specially if she felt she couldn't drink regular drinks in front of husband.
Is this generally what somebody does when they poison their partner? Not unheard of but certainly not the norm.
serendipitous1
Not sure Daiichi Sankyo is an 'elite' company. Just a big, pharmaceutical company. He doesn't sound too clever if they easily found methanol in her system.