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Psychiatrics say woman accused of killing husband, dismembering his body was insane

Monday, 10 March 2008

Two psychiatrists commissioned to conduct evaluations on a woman standing trial for murdering her husband and dismembering his body told a court on Monday she was insane.

If the court upholds their evaluations, it will deem that Kaori Mihashi, 33, cannot be held responsibile for the incident and acquit her.

Kazumasa Kimura, head of Kokoro-no Clinic Shakujii, who examined Mihashi's mental condition at the request of her defense lawyers, pointed out that she was mentally unstable because she was abused by her husband.

"She was unable to escape from her husband Yusuke who regularly assaulted her. She was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the time the incident occurred," Kimura told the Tokyo District Court.

Yoshiharu Kin, a psychiatrist at the National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, who conducted a psychiatric evaluation on her at the request of prosecutors, also said she was suffering from PTSD as a result of domestic violence.

The two psychiatrists told Presiding Judge Masaya Kawamoto that, at the time of the incident, the defendant had lost her ability to control her own actions.

Her defense counsel has claimed that she was unable to tell right from wrong because she suffered from hallucinations.

Mihashi is under indictment for fatally bashing her husband Yusuke, who was then 30, on the head with a bottle at their Tokyo home in December 2006. She then dismembered his body with a saw and dumped the body parts in various places in Shibuya-ku.

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