World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

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World’s longest-serving ****** row inmate acquitted in Japan

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Iwao Hakamada has been awaiting his potential ********** for 56 years

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving ****** row inmate has been acquitted by a ********* court.

Iwao Hakamada, who has been on ****** row for more than half a century, was found guilty in 1968 of ******** his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.

He was recently granted a retrial amid suspicions that investigators may have planted evidence that led to his conviction for quadruple *******.

The verdict brings to an end one of Japan’s longest and most famous legal sagas.

In 2014, Hakamada was released from jail and granted a retrial by a ********* court, after defence lawyers showed that DNA from blood stains found on clothing alleged to have been worn by the ******* did not match his own.

Since then he has been living under the care of his sister, due to his deteriorated mental state.

Prolonged legal proceedings meant that it took until last year for that retrial to begin – and until Thursday morning for the courts to declare whether Hakamada would be cleared of the charges, or hanged.

Hakamada is only the fifth ****** row inmate to be granted a retrial in the country’s post-war history.

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