In addition to “B,” the semi-principal suspect who died alone… The “heavy cross” that the perpetrator of the “high school girl stuffed in concrete” case will bear for the rest of his life.
Died “alone” three years ago.
B, a semi-major suspect in the high school girls’ concrete-packed murder case, died alone three years ago.
On January 6, just after the start of 2013, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation (HBC) reported a shocking news.
According to the station, “B was found collapsed in the bathroom of his house in July 2010 by his mother. He was already not breathing,” the station said.
The “Ayase, Adachi-ku: Murder of a High School Girl Stuffed in Concrete” took place on November 25, 1988. Four boys, aged between 16 and 18 at the time, kidnapped and confined a 17-year-old high school girl attending a high school in Saitama Prefecture. For about 40 days, they assaulted and humiliated the victim day and night, resulting in her weakening and death. The boys also placed the victim’s body in a stolen oil drum, poured cement over it, and left it there.
B was sentenced to an indeterminate term of between five and ten years in prison and was released in 1999. For a time, he worked in the computer-related business and was married, but he was imprisoned again for the arrest and confinement case he caused in May ’04.’ After his release from prison in 2009, he apparently lived alone in an apartment in Saitama Prefecture. He was 51 years old at the time of his death.
A reporter for this magazine who covered the crime scene immediately after the incident recalls the following about B at the time.
He was a baseball boy who played left field for the local baseball team at elementary school. In junior high school, he was an active member of the track team. While he was a big athlete, he also had a quiet side that would not say no when asked to do something.
However, he entered a private high school but quit in the second semester of his freshman year.
After meeting A, he began to repeat his delinquent behavior, such as driving a motorcycle without a license. However, many of his classmates saw B, who was used like a lackey, humiliating himself to A.” According to Hokkaido Broadcasting Co.
According to Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation, “B’s acquaintances were saying everywhere they took him, including when they went out for drinks, that he was the culprit in the concrete case.
It seems that the past of being “the culprit of the concrete incident” is not something that can be easily concealed. The past also haunted C, whose home was the scene of the incident.
Always feeling that he is a criminal.
A reporter for a national newspaper talked about C. after his release from prison.
After his release from prison in July 1991, he joined a Muay Thai gym in Tokyo and competed in tournaments as a professional. At the time, he worked while going to the gym, and on weekends he would enter the ring at a Thai restaurant in front of Ayase Station, where he could watch Muay Thai fights and have dinner. However, at some point, the Muay Thai gym began to receive complaints that “the criminal in the concrete case belonged to the gym,” and before long, C disappeared.
When we spoke to the man who filed the complaint with the Muay Thai gym, he told us, “I noticed C’s name was the same as it was on the Internet and his face matched the photo, so I called the gym and told them not to let such a dangerous man compete.
Since he was playing in Ayase, where the incident took place in the first place, the local delinquents were already talking about it, saying, ‘C, the guy from the concrete incident, is back.
Some of them were even hanging around the store looking for
C was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for stabbing a man on a street in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, in August ’18, and was later charged with assault.
I believe that C always had the feeling that he was the culprit in the concrete crime,” he said.
A reporter for a national newspaper who covered the trial at the time said.
During the trial, C denied that he had stabbed the victim. He also said, ‘This is a conspiracy by the police to revise the Juvenile Law. I want to say that there is no room for rehabilitation. When asked why he believed this, he replied, “Because I caused an incident when I was a teenager that caused a sensation throughout Japan.
He seemed to be trying to say that because he was the perpetrator of the concrete incident, the police were unfairly trying to frame him for a serious crime. Although he did not mention the specific name of the case, I remember that I was surprised to hear C directly mention the concrete case.
C was subsequently convicted.
The “Ayase, Adachi-ku: High School Girl Concrete Stuffed to Death Murder Case” has been called “the worst juvenile case in history. Like B, who met a lonely end, the perpetrators will always carry the “heavy cross” of being the perpetrators of “that” case.
PHOTO： Eiji Ikeda
