Tokyo, Feb 4 (IANS) Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, filed an appeal on Wednesday against his life sentence.The Nara District Court on January 21 handed down a life sentence to Yamagami, 45, who was convicted of murder and other charges for shooting Abe with a homemade gun in July 2022 while the former leader was delivering a campaign speech on a street in Nara.The ruling rejected the defence counsel’s argument that his unfavorable upb…
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Tokyo, Jan 21 (IANS) A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man charged with the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 to life in prison, terming the shooting using a homemade gun with adequate lethal power “vile and extremely vicious,” local media reported. The Nara District Court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami (45) to life in prison as prosecutors had demanded.Yamagami admitted to killing Abe using a homemade firearm while the former Japanese PM was delivering a s…