Conviction with probation.

Breaking News "Gunma Prefecture".

By AI of "Isesaki FM".

Man found guilty of contract killing of mother, given probation.

The Maebashi District Court handed down a suspended sentence and probation to a 48-year-old defendant who was charged with contract killing for strangling his 70-year-old mother, whom he was caring for, to death in April this year at the request of the defendant,

Junji Hagiwara, 48, an unemployed man from Isesaki City, was charged with contract killing for strangling his 79-year-old mother, whom he was caring for at home, to death in April this year.

In his ruling on the 18th, the judge pointed out that "the crime, which was based on a strong intent to kill, resulted in the serious consequence of taking a life."