Ex-bar
owner given life term for killing 2 husbands
Thursday,
July 19, 2007 at 16:30 EDT
FUKUOKA
— The Fukuoka District Court sentenced a former bar
owner to life imprisonment Thursday as sought by
prosecutors for killing her husband in 1994 and then her
next spouse in 2000. Yuko Takahashi, 51, was found guilty
of stabbing her first husband Yuji Nomoto, 34, to death,
with the help of her boyfriend, at their home in the town
of Shime, Fukuoka Prefecture, in October 1994.
She was also convicted of drowning her next husband
Takayuki Takahashi, then 54, without an accomplice in the
bath of their home in the city of Fukuoka in November 2000.
Takahashi's boyfriend Kenichi Ide, 36, a former home tutor,
was sentenced to imprisonment of three years and six
months. Prosecutors had demanded imprisonment of 12 years.
(Kyodo News)