of japanese rapist guilty of lucie blackman kidnap

Japanese rapist guilty of Lucie Blackman kidnap: Joji Obara, jailed for life for attacks on nine women, convicted at Tokyo high court of abducting and mutilating the body of Briton. Joji had taken Blackman, then 21, to his beachside apartment near Tokyo. He later cut her body into 10 pieces with a chainsaw before burying her remains in a nearby cave.


Lucie Blackman, the murdered British bar hostess who disappeared in Japan on 1 July 2000

A court in Japan today found a serial rapist guilty of kidnapping, mutilating and abandoning the body of the Briton Lucie Blackman in a partial reversal of an earlier ruling acquitting him of involvement in her death.

Joji Obara, a wealthy Japanese property developer, was acquitted last year of killing the 21-year-old, but was found guilty of raping nine other women and killing one of them.

In this undated file photo taken when he was a high school student, Japanese serial rapist Joji Obara who was charged with serial rape cases including slain Briton Lucie Blackman in 2000, is shown. [photo via]

Other links:
- British woman's Tokyo abductor gets life
- Tokyo businessman convicted of abducting British hostess