元保護者会長、二審も無期懲役　千葉・松戸女児殺害―東京高裁

　千葉県松戸市の小学３年レェ・ティ・ニャット・リンさん＝当時（９）、ベトナム国籍＝が殺害された事件で、殺人などの罪に問われた小学校の元保護者会長、渋谷恭正被告（４９）の控訴審判決が２３日、東京高裁であり、平木正洋裁判長は無期懲役とした一審千葉地裁の裁判員裁判判決を支持し、検察側、弁護側双方の控訴を棄却した。
　弁護側は一審に続き「被告は犯人ではない」と無罪を訴え、千葉県警の捜査手法に違法性があったと主張。検察側は、死刑が相当だとしていた。（2021/03/23-12:49）

Tokyo High Court upheld on Tuesday a district court ruling that sentenced a Japanese man to an indefinite prison term for crimes including the murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, in 2017.
   The man, Yasumasa Shibuya, 49, was the head of the parents association at the elementary school attended by the victim, Le Thi Nhat Linh, a third-grader, at the time of the crime.
   The high court rejected appeals from both the prosecution and defense sides over the 2018 ruling handed down by Chiba District Court at the lay judge trial.
   The defense side had said that Shibuya was innocent, claiming that the investigation method of the Chiba prefectural police was illegal. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty.
   Tokyo High Court Presiding Judge Masahiro Hiraki noted that prefectural police investigators illegally collected Shibuya's cigarette butts on the premises of the condominium where he lived without a warrant or a permission from the administrator of the condo.