嘱託殺人罪で２医師起訴　ＡＬＳ患者に薬物投与―京都地検

　難病の筋萎縮性側索硬化症（ＡＬＳ）患者の依頼を受け、医師２人が患者を殺害したとされる事件で、京都地検は１３日、嘱託殺人罪で大久保愉一（４２）＝仙台市＝と山本直樹（４３）＝東京都港区＝両容疑者を起訴した。地検は認否を明らかにしていない。
　起訴状によると、両容疑者は共謀の上、ＡＬＳ患者の林優里さん＝当時（５１）＝の依頼を受け、２０１９年１１月３０日午後５時２１～３７分ごろ、京都市中京区の林さんの自宅マンションに出向いて薬物を胃ろうから投与し、同８時１０分ごろ、京都市内の病院で急性薬物中毒により死亡させたとされる。
　両容疑者は林さんの主治医ではなく、関係者によると少なくとも事件の１年前から林さんとインターネット交流サイト（ＳＮＳ）でやりとりし、事件当日まで面識はなかった。事件直前に山本容疑者の口座に報酬とみられる現金１３０万円が２回に分けて振り込まれていた。
　林さんは２人の退室後に容体が急変。別の部屋にいたヘルパーが主治医に連絡をし病院に搬送されたが、死亡が確認された。林さんの体内からは、鎮静作用のある「バルビツール酸系」の薬物が検出された。（2020/08/13-16:57）

The Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday indicted two doctors for allegedly killing a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an intractable disease, at the victim's request.
   Yoshikazu Okubo, 42, from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, and Naoki Yamamoto, 43, from Tokyo, are suspected of administering Yuri Hayashi, 51, with a drug via a gastrostomy in a conspiracy when they visited her apartment in the western Japan city of Kyoto at her request between around 5:21 p.m. (8:21 a.m. GMT) and 5:37 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2019, and causing her to die of acute drug poisoning at a Kyoto hospital around 8:10 p.m. on the day.
   The two doctors were not the ALS patient's attending doctors and had never met her before their visit to her home, informed sources said. They started to exchange messages with the patient on social media at least a year before the murder, according to the sources.
   A total of 1.3 million yen, believed to be a reward for the alleged assisted suicide, was remitted to a bank account of Yamamoto on two occasions right before the incident.
   The patient's condition suddenly worsened after the two doctors left her home. A caregiver for Hayashi, who was in a different room at the apartment at the time, contacted her attending doctor, and the patient was sent to a hospital, where she was confirmed dead. Barbiturate sedatives were detected from her body, according to investigative sources.