2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Shoji Sakurai (L) and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, emerge from the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture after the branch court acquitted them in a retrial of the murder of a man in the prefecture, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter. They were freed on parole in 1996. (Kyodo)

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