Getty PicturesAn 88-year-old man who’s the world’s longest-serving loss of life row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court docket.
Iwao Hakamada, who has been on loss of life row for greater than half a century, was discovered responsible in 1968 of killing his boss, the person’s spouse and their two teenage youngsters.
He was just lately granted a retrial amid suspicions that investigators could have planted proof that led to his conviction for quadruple homicide.
The decision brings to an finish one in all Japan’s longest and most well-known authorized sagas.
In 2014, Hakamada was launched from jail and granted a retrial by a Japanese court docket, after defence attorneys confirmed that DNA from blood stains discovered on clothes alleged to have been worn by the killer didn’t match his personal.
Since then he has been dwelling beneath the care of his sister, as a result of his deteriorated psychological state.
Extended authorized proceedings meant that it took till final 12 months for that retrial to start – and till Thursday morning for the courts to declare whether or not Hakamada can be cleared of the fees, or hanged.
Hakamada is just the fifth loss of life row inmate to be granted a retrial within the nation’s post-war historical past.
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