U.S. Navy sailor denies intent to kill, rob taxi driver

Friday 11th April, 02:34 PM JST

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robin_hood at 03:53 PM JST - 11th April

He had earlier told his lawyer he had heard a voice ordering him to stab someone and that his victim could have been anybody.

He must have been reading JT recently, it sounds exactly like that kids defense for pushing that guy onto the train tracks a few weeks ago.

Too bad for him though this kind of defense rarely works in Japan, even when the people involved are clearly out of their mind...

He's just lucky the SOFA has clause which prohibits capital punishment... I am all for bringing back "cruel & unusual" punishment for scumbags like this...
Hughgarse at 04:52 PM JST - 11th April

"but denied having any intent to kill or rob the victim"

what do you think stabbing someone`s going to do numbnuts?
kendodan at 07:09 PM JST - 11th April

If the taxi drivers family really wants justice, they should let the Navy prosecute this guy and not the Japanese system.

If he had to face a court martial for murder and was found guilty by the Naval court martial, he would get the death penatly or at the very least life in prison.

In the Japanese system they will be lucky if he gets 15 years at the most.
getsy at 07:01 AM JST - 12th April

him and his voices should be put to deathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
tyedyed at 09:24 AM JST - 12th April

If anybody has any doubts about the mind of Olatunboson "Kenny" Ugbogu and thinks he’s is somehow being wronged for this, I suggest you go look at his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/lazzzzyyyy He is nothing but a cold blooded calculating premeditated murder. I hope he gets the maximum punishment for his crimes. Since he was a deserter they should wave any SOFA protection and allow the Japanese to seek death in this instance. The voices defense is nothing more than a ploy to somehow deflect blame from him. I can only hope that the court sees thru it and blocks any attempt by him to use it in his case. His actions beforehand by taking the knife from a girls place and using it to kill Masaaki Takahashi and then going out to party with 2 honch crawlers show what it is all really about.
Alphaape at 11:32 AM JST - 12th April

tyedyed, I saw his myspace profile. I agree he knew full well what he was doing. I guess the voices in his head told him to live the life of Riley and act out his hip-hop video fantasies.

As I stated in a previous post, if the US/Japan will start going after deserters, all they need to do is begin to check the myspace pages of the missing, and you would be able to pin them down as far as their local hangouts. An idot like him, would not know how to do anything different than what he has been doing, and will come back to the same old places that he is familiar with.

I say go after all of his buddies that he was associated with, since they knew he was UA and bring them up on aiding and abetting, and I bet that will give prosecutors all the info they need on this guy to throw the book at him without any chance of the insanity plea.
DarkWolfMage320 at 01:09 PM JST - 12th April

Whether he actually has that voice thingy or not, he should be put in jail, or a manicom (Sorry if i spelled it wrong) because, if he really does have that problem about hearing voices telling him to stab someone, he'll do it again.
BlackTieAffair at 03:10 PM JST - 13th April

Seaman Olatunboson Ugbogu AKA "Kenny" is rather interesting character because he was a low life from the start. When you peel the onion back an look at events prior to this scandal we can see that leadership failed for sure. The young Kenny had numerous issues like identity theft, passing bad checks and was on his way to court martial. The COWPENS leadership failed to take care of this individual before he could climb down a mooring line, go UA and wreck havoc in the community.

At the end of the day the Navy has to take responsibility for its knuckleheads......this is nothing new.