Ex-airman gets 18 years in murder, burning of ex-wife

[unhappycamper]

Ex-airman gets 18 years in murder, burning of ex-wife
Kyodo News Service
Posted : Friday Feb 1, 2008 8:35:06 EST

AOMORI, Japan — The Aomori District Court sentenced a former U.S. airman Friday to 18 years in prison for murdering his divorced Japanese wife in Hachinohe in July 2006.

William Scott Omari McAllister, 26, had admitted to abandoning and damaging the body of 33-year-old Naomi Kimura but denied he had intentionally killed his ex-wife, who was running a bar in Misawa at the time.

In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Hidetaka Watanabe called the crime “cruel and brutal” as the defendant burned her body together with a car by spreading gasoline to try to prevent the murder from being discovered.

The defense denied McAllister intended to kill Kimura and sought to have the charge of bodily injury resulting in death applied instead of murder, saying, “It was an accidental crime as he became indignant by the victim’s words and actions.”

The court ruled there was willful intention to kill Kimura. But it said it could not be recognized whether there was definite intention to kill her because her body was burned.


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