Japanese citizen Iuo Hakamada (89 years) received 217 million yen (1.44 million dollars), in compensation for his detention, a mistake, for about half a century, according to the Japanese news agency “Kyodo” news today (Tuesday).
Yesterday, the District Court of Shizuka issued an order for the Japanese government to pay the amount in favor of Hakamada, after his acquittal last September, during his re -trial in the case of killing a family of 4 people in Shizuka, central Japan in 1966.
According to the Legal team for Handada, this amount is the largest criminal compensation paid in the country, Kyodo said.
It is noteworthy that Japanese law states that the person who is absent is entitled to obtain up to 12,500 yen for each day detention.
The former professional boxer Hakamada was first arrested, and was accused of killing the employer who was working for him and the wife and two sons in Shizuka.
Hakamada confessed to the crime at first, after a 20 -day interrogation, saying that he was beaten and threatened. Then he retracted his confession during the trial.
After spending more than 4 decades awaiting the death penalty, his trial was re -tried in 2014, following the emergence of a DNA.
Hakamada was placed in solitary confinement most of his detention, and his mental state deteriorated during the decades he spent is isolated.
