TOKYO (Reuters) - A former Japanese businessman charged with serial rape and killing two foreign women, including Briton Lucie Blackman in 2000, faces a court verdict on Tuesday in a case experts call the worst sex crime in Japanese history.
Former property developer Joji Obara, 54, is charged with total of 10 cases of rape, including drugging, raping and killing Blackman, a 21-year-old former British Airways flight attendant who was working at a hostess bar in Tokyo when she disappeared seven years ago.
"One person carrying out so many such cases, it's the first in our country's history," said Takeshi Tsuchimoto, a former prosecutor and professor at Hakuoh University Law School.
Prosecutors have said Obara took her to his beach-front condominium just southwest of Tokyo that day and made her drinks laced with sleeping pills and other drugs before raping her. Continued...
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