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Gangster who shot the wrong man in hospital faces life behind bars

Friday, 23 May 2008

SAGA -- Prosecutors have demanded a yakuza under indictment for fatally shooting a hospital inpatient after mistaking the victim as a rival gangster spend the rest of his life behind bars.

"The victim was not at fault at all. It was an extremely vicious crime based on his firm murderous intent," a prosecutor said during a hearing at the Saga District Court.

Fumio Imada, 61, the yakuza belonging to an affiliate of the Dojin-kai crime syndicate, is under indictment for murdering Hiroshi Miyamoto, 34, at a hospital in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, in November last year. Imada mistook Miyamoto, a sheet metal worker, as a gangster who had previously occupied the same hospital room.

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