小２女児殺害容疑で再逮捕　任意聴取に関与認める―別事件で逮捕の勝田容疑者・兵庫県警

　兵庫県加古川市で２００７年１０月、小学２年だった鵜瀬柚希さん＝当時（７）＝が腹部などを刺され死亡した事件で、県警加古川署捜査本部は２７日、殺人容疑で、別の女児に対する殺人未遂容疑で逮捕されていた勝田州彦容疑者（４５）を再逮捕した。捜査関係者によると、同容疑者は任意聴取の段階で、事件への関与を認めていたという。
　発生から１７年超。物証に乏しく、捜査が難航した事件は重大局面を迎えた。
　捜査関係者によると、勝田容疑者は０７年１０月１６日午後６時ごろ、加古川市別府町新野辺の柚希さん宅の敷地で、柚希さんの腹部などを刃物のようなもので数回刺し、殺害した疑いが持たれている。（2024/11/27-10:34）

Japanese police on Wednesday served a fresh arrest warrant to a 45-year-old suspect in the 2006 case of attempted murder of a girl in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, for allegedly stabbing another girl to death in Kakogawa in the same prefecture in 2007.
   Kunihiko Katsuta had admitted his involvement in murdering Yuzuki Unose, then a 7-year-old second-grade elementary school student, during voluntary questioning, investigative sources said.
   Katsuta is suspected of stabbing Unose several times in the stomach and other parts of her body with a blade-like object around 6 p.m. on Oct. 16, 2007, on the premises of her home in Kakogawa.
   Since May this year, the Hyogo prefectural police department had voluntarily questioned Katsuta, who is serving an indefinite prison sentence for the 2004 murder of yet another girl, then a third-grade elementary school student, in Tsuyama in Okayama Prefecture, which neighbors Hyogo.
   Although Katsuta initially denied his involvement in the cases in Tatsuno and Kakogawa, which were similar to the case in Tsuyama in terms of the characteristics of the victims and crime methods, he later admitted his involvement, according to the sources.