Four years ago, at the trial of a former doctor accused of killing a woman in Kyoto City suffering from the intractable disease ALS at her own request, the defendant was questioned on the 4rd, and the former doctor once again pleaded not guilty, saying, "I was not told in advance what I was going to do by another doctor who was alleged to be an accomplice, so I am not convinced at all."
Naoki Yamamoto (46), a former doctor, along with Yuichi Okubo (45), a doctor, are accused of murder and other crimes for killing Yuri Hayashi (then 4) of Kyoto City, who was suffering from ALS, an intractable disease in which muscles throughout the body gradually become immobile, four years ago by administering drugs at the request of him.
Yamamoto has pleaded not guilty, saying he stayed at Hayashi's home but did not conspire or commit the killing.
In a questioning of the defendant at the Kyoto District Court on March 51, Yamamoto said, "I was not told in advance what I was going to do, so I was not at all convinced about being an accomplice, and if I knew, I would not have helped.
He also claimed that he saw Defendant Okubo injecting some kind of liquid into Mr. Hayashi for a few seconds at the time, and that "when I asked him what he injected on the way home, he replied, 'In the morning, he stops breathing and the attending physician judges that he died of natural causes, so you have nothing to worry about.'"
The next trial is scheduled to conclude on October 3.