Nepalese man returns home for 1st time in 18 yrs

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (C), the Nepalese man convicted in a 1997 Tokyo murder case, gestures to his mother and others who awaited him at Kathmandu's airport on June 16, 2012, upon his return home for the first time in 18 years after a Japanese court granted him a retrial. To the right is his wife Radha who traveled with him from Japan.

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