Takashi Ono, whose son Kazuya was seriously injured in the attack said: “I want you to apologize again. I want to hear exactly who you are.” Takashi Ono says he will use the Victim Participation Program to communicate with Uematsu directly.
When questioned about being told that a resident could talk, he said, “I thought that the explanation by the staff was a lie and made my own judgment by calling out “good morning”, and then acted deliberately.
From an NHK Newsline broadcast on January 24th 2020 at 21:00 (JST)
The alleged murderer in a 2016 massacre at a care home for mentally disabled people in eastern Japan contradicted his defense team’s arguments, disputing the need to question his sanity during questioning on Friday.
“The lawyers and my ideas are the exact opposite, not a claim of insanity” whilst explaining why he wants his lawyers to be fired.
“He began to talk about the killing method about two months before the incident. I had been involved in the conversation whilst I thought it was a delusion, but the content was gradually becoming more realistic I was scared…After that, I was strongly invited by the defendant to cooperate but declined. “
Lawyers read the testimony given by friends of the defandant who stipulate that he “started saying ‘kill the disabled’ six months before the incident.”
Takashi Ono said that he was sitting in a seat where he could see Uematsu, and said: “They read my son’s real name as Kazuya Ono. But it was a pity that there was no reaction. ”
The defendant’s former partner said that the defendant referred to the residents of the Tsukui Lily Garden care facility as “cute” two years before the incident, but that his way of describing the residents became more severe about seven months before the incident, that he began to speak of people with disabilities as “unproductive.”
On the 16th, the fourth day of hearings was held at the Yokohama District Court. Prosecutors read the statements of the bereaved families of all 19 victims in the court.
Barrier Free Japan