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Prosecutors have decided that a 48-year-old man suspected of killing a 75-year-old woman and the 52-year-old son of her common-law husband in July is mentally unfit to stand trial.
The decision was made after two months of psychiatric evaluation, Fuji TV reported Saturday.
On July 10, the woman, Shinobu Inoue, and Shigeharu Sugano, who is the older brother of the suspect, were found dead at their residence in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. They were last seen alive on July 7.
The two victims had multiple stab wounds to their neck and chest. A blood-stained knife, broken at the tip, was found in the apartment.
Their bodies were found by one of Inoue's relatives at around 12:30 p.m. at their apartment on the second floor of a condo in Nishi-Oi. The door to the apartment was not locked.
Police said Inoue and Sugano lived together in the apartment but have released no information about Inoue's common-law husband.
The suspect was identified after security camera footage showed him disposing of a pair of gloves and changing some of his clothing near a convenience store not far from the scene of the crime on July 8, which is when police believe the victims were killed.
The suspect, who lived in Shinjuku Ward, was arrested on July 11. Police said he spoke incomprehensibly and prosecutors decided to order a psychiatric evaluation.
© Japan Today
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Goodlucktoyou
he is unfit, but managed to dispose of gloves and change his clothes?
Silvafan
He is playing the system. Disposing of evidence is not the sign of an unfit person. I wonder if he is connected.
Disillusioned
Just another undiagnosed psycho living in the society. This joker (and many more like him) should have been in an institution, not in the society.
mmwkdw
So, he's a nutter... now what, let him go ?