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Life Imprisonment Sentence for Murder of a Family of Three; Saitama District Court Ruling, Citing Diminished Mental Capacity; Prosecution Sought Death Penalty.

In the 2022 murder case in which three family members, including American citizen Bishop William Ross Jr. (then 69), were killed in their home in Hannō City, Saitama Prefecture, the Saitama District Court (Presiding Judge Hideki Inoshita) on the 16th held a lay judge trial for Jun Saito (43), an unemployed resident of the same city, who is charged with murder and other crimes...
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In the 2022 murder case in which three family members, including American citizen Bishop William Ross Jr. (then 69), were killed in their home in Hannō City, Saitama Prefecture, the Saitama District Court (Presiding Judge Hideki Inoshita) on the 16th held a lay judge trial for Jun Saito (43), an unemployed resident of the same city, who is charged with murder and other crimes...

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産経ニュース broke the news in Japan on Monday, March 16, 2026.
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