Court accepts murder confession as evidence despite retraction

Photo taken in June 2014 shows Takuya Katsumata, who has been on trial over the 2005 murder of a 7-year-old girl in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Tochigi. The Utsunomiya District Court accepted investigation records on March 18, 2016, that shows Katsumata, 33, admitting to the murder of the girl as evidence, despite the defendant's not-guilty plea and claim that he was pressured into making the confession. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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