父殺害、元医師に懲役１３年　ＡＬＳ事件の被告―京都地裁

　２０１１年、父親を殺害したとして殺人罪に問われた元医師山本直樹被告（４５）の裁判員裁判の判決が７日、京都地裁であり、川上宏裁判長は懲役１３年（求刑懲役２０年）を言い渡した。
　川上裁判長は、被告が「医師の経験を基に他殺と疑われない計画を練り上げ、完遂に不可欠な役割を主体的に果たした」と指摘。父の介助や入院費負担など「これまでの苦労に鑑みれば同情の余地がある」としながらも、「安易に命を奪うことを決めた意思決定は強い非難に値する」と結論付けた。
　判決によると、被告は１１年３月、母の淳子被告（７８）や医師大久保愉一被告（４４）と共謀し、東京都内のアパートの一室などで父の靖さん＝当時（７７）＝を何らかの方法で殺害した。
　山本被告は難病の筋萎縮性側索硬化症（ＡＬＳ）患者＝同（５１）＝の依頼を受け、薬物を投与して殺害したほか、別の難病患者の診断書を偽造したとして、大久保被告と共に嘱託殺人と有印公文書偽造の罪でも起訴された。（2023/02/07-18:44）

Kyoto District Court on Tuesday sentenced former doctor Naoki Yamamoto, 45, to 13 years in prison for killing his father in 2011, against 20 years sought by the prosecution.
   According to the verdict, Yamamoto conspired with his mother, 78, and fellow doctor Yoshikazu Okubo, 44, to kill his father, Yasushi, then 77, by unknown means in a Tokyo apartment in March 2011.
   Separately, Yamamoto is facing charges including the murder of a 51-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient by administering a certain drug at the patient's request.
   At the Kyoto court on Tuesday, Presiding Judge Hiroshi Kawakami said Yamamoto used his experience as a doctor to develop a plan that would not raise suspicion of murder and proactively played a crucial role in killing the father.
   The judge noted that there was room for sympathy in light of Yamamoto's hardships, such as having to take care of the father and pay for the father's hospitalization. But the judge concluded that his decision to take life so easily deserved strong condemnation.