{"id":549198,"date":"2006-06-15T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549198-man-orders-murder-on-internet.html"},"modified":"2006-06-15T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:20:44","slug":"man-orders-murder-on-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549198-man-orders-murder-on-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Man orders murder on Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Naoya Katayama, 36, killed wheelchair-bound Tsutomu Nomoto by hitting him with a hammer, for which he was reportedly paid two million yen (17,500 dollars). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The defence argued that Katayama had only sought to help other people by fulfilling the murder request posted on an Internet bulletin board, an argument dismissed by the court. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The motive was greed and was inhuman and leaves no room for leniency,&quot; said presiding judge Yasuyuki Tsuchiya of the Nagano District Court in central Japan. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The court also sentenced the victim&#8217;s son Tomitaka, 50, and grandson Michitaka, 25, to prison terms of 20 years and 13 years respectively for posting the order and negotiating the deal with Katayama. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">They told the court they had ordered the killing because they felt threatened, but according to media reports Tomitaka Nomoto was unemployed and had a history of beating his father who nagged him to get a job. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese man received a life sentence for killing a 76-year-old man on behalf of the victim&#8217;s son and grandson who had placed an order for his murder on the Internet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}