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Alleged Akihabara Killer Sends Apology to Victim
posted on by Egan Loo
Tomohiro Katō, the man who allegedly otaku shopping district of Akihabara last year, sent an apology letter to one of the victims. The 23-year-old man is on trial for the incident. 55-year-old taxi driver Hiroshi Yuasa received the six-page handwritten letter via Katō's lawyer on Friday. Also enclosed was another letter from Katō's parents.
Katō wrote, "However much I repent, however much I apologize will never be enough to make things right, and since my crime deserves death 10,000 times I think I will be sentenced to death." He added that the victims' pain "must be something like the uncontrollable anger I felt when my online self was killed on the forum I spent all my time on by trolls."
Yuasa commented, "From the way he wrote so politely, you wouldn't have thought someone like that could have done such a thing. I want to hear the whole story at the trial."
Source: Mainichi Daily News (Japanese) via Zergwatch
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