Man who stabbed a Filipina pub woman with a machete “bowed deeply right after his arrest”.
I used to enjoy talking with [my favorite] women at the pub.
In his opening statement, the defense attorney explained the defendant’s state of mind.
On November 18, the Tokyo District Court heard the first trial of Morito Mogami, 65, who is charged with attempted murder and assault. The defendant admitted that “there is almost no doubt” about the content of the indictment.
The incident occurred in July 2011. He stabbed the manager of a Filipina pub he frequented with a kitchen knife he had prepared on a street in Tokyo. He had a favorite girl at the Philippine pub, but he was dissatisfied with her behavior and repeatedly got into trouble with the manager, and was banned from the pub. It is believed that the defendant, who resented the manager, tried to kill him.
FRIDAY Digital” reported in detail on the attempted murder of the defendant in an article distributed on July 10, 2011. We would like to recount the shocking scene of the defendant’s recrimination and his bowing deeply to the magazine’s photographers and others when he was sent to the police station for prosecution.
A man is chasing a woman.
Help!
A woman came running into a convenience store late at night looking for help. She had multiple injuries and was covered in blood. Her face was frightened.
The incident occurred at around 11:00 p.m. on July 6, 2011, in a downtown area of Nerima, Tokyo. A man in a black suit holding a kitchen knife chased Ms. A, a woman in her 40s. The man stabbed her in the chest and stomach.
The scene was a drinking area about 150 meters from Nerima Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line. A person who witnessed the trouble said, ‘A man with a knife is chasing a woman. The woman is covered in blood. The man chased her into a convenience store, where she ran into, but quickly fled.
From security camera footage, the assailant was identified as the defendant, an unemployed man living in a nearby condominium, who was the top defendant. The Nerima Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department took the defendant into custody when he returned to his home after 4:00 a.m. on the following day, approximately five hours after the incident. The defendant, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, admitted the crime, saying, ‘I’m sure I did it.
Ms. A was taken to the hospital and was seriously injured, but fortunately her life was not in serious danger. What kind of trouble did she have with the defendant?
”I felt I was made fun of.”
Mr. A is the manager of a Filipina pub in Nerima Ward.” The defendant, who started going there around 20 years, was a regular customer of the pub and had a liking for one of the female employees, Ms. B. However, he became furious when he saw Ms. B kissing another customer on the cheek at the store. He often quarreled with Mr. A, the manager of the restaurant.
The defendant, who felt resentment, contacted the police several times, saying things like, “I can’t forgive her,” and blaming the store and its employees. Just before the incident, he reported that he was going to kill her, and the police instructed the store to be careful. The defendant was banned from the store.
On the day of the incident, Mogami was seen in front of the store. It seems that he prepared a knife in advance and waited for Ms. A to come out of the store before committing the crime.
The defendant also stated, “I was banned from the store. He was banned from the restaurant and got angry. I stabbed him because I felt I was not taken seriously and made fun of. It seems that he had developed a one-sided grudge against the store for the way it handled him.
When he was sent to the police immediately after his arrest, Mogami made a shocking appearance bowing deeply to the assembled press, including the photographer for this magazine. The verdict is scheduled to be handed down on December 11.
PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo