‘Asked to film himself having sex with himself’…37-year-old defendant who pleads not guilty ‘in the basement of his vacation home with a 23-year-old woman’, court says.

It’s a total mistake.

In court, the defendant denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.

The Tokyo District Court on February 17 heard the first trial of Hiroyuki Sanpei, 37, an unemployed defendant accused of murder and abandoning a corpse. Sanpei is alleged to have murdered a 23-year-old Tokyo resident, Ms. A, at her vacation home in Hitachiota City, Ibaraki Prefecture, in June 2010, and dumped her body in a nearby forest.

It appears that Sanpei and Ms. A met through social networking services. In court, the prosecution pointed out the following, arguing that charges such as murder would apply. He asked a woman to film him having sex with her. The woman was last confirmed to be alive on video taken by Sanpei.

On the other hand, Sanpei’s defense said, “We filmed the woman’s death while confirming her will. There is no direct evidence that he killed the woman and dumped her body. The defendant Sanpei will remain silent at the upcoming hearing.

FRIDAY” reported on the case in detail in its July 8, 2010 issue immediately after the incident. We would like to introduce the whole story of the crime and an expert’s analysis of the background of the trouble.

This was the second time we had met.

The defendant handcuffed Ms. A in the basement of the villa and held her captive for two hours. Images and videos of him with the handcuffed woman were left on defendant Sanpei’s smartphone. The body was found in a mountain forest about 1 km away from where he was believed to have been confined, but he was not wearing any clothes” (investigator).

It seems that Sanpei and Ms. A continued to communicate with each other via SNS and met in person.

On June 5, 2010, the day Ms. A went missing, a security camera caught her getting into Sanbei’s car in front of JR Mito Station. When questioned by the police, the defendant stated that this was the second time he had met her.

The villa where the confinement took place was about an hour’s drive from Mito Station, and the Sanpei defendant’s main residence was in Minami-ashigara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Analyzing the background of the case is Taihei Ogawa, a former Kanagawa Prefectural Police detective and crime journalist.

The motive for the crime is unclear, but it is likely that the woman refused the defendant’s excesses and demands. At the time of the incident, the COVID-19 crisis was in full swing, and people were unable to communicate in real life, relying instead on social networking sites. In some cases, even those who did not know each other may have felt as if they had established a relationship of trust as they continued to communicate with each other.

Since the COVID-19 crisis, there have been an increasing number of cases of young women taking advantage of such relationships on social networking sites. Women should avoid meeting one-on-one with people they have met on social networking sites. If you must meet alone with a person, please tell your family or close friends in advance that you are meeting Mr. 00 at the station and never go to the other person’s home. Choose a public place to meet, such as a coffee shop. It is very dangerous to trust someone you have never met.

Since Sanpei has refused to be questioned by the accused at the trial mentioned at the beginning of this article, the examination is scheduled to proceed through witness interviews.