“I wanted money, I could not refuse after being asked.” A 15-year-old boy’s ‘justification’ for allegedly killing his friend’s mother, after the 46-year-old woman’s son offered him a 300,000 yen (1,345 pound) payment.â€
The 16-year-old son involved in the murder is suspected of talking to his friend about the crime in early August, with police officers confirming that the woman was stabbed to death last Sunday at around 10pm in Wakkanai, Hokkaido.
Due to their ages neither boy can be named, but the son is said to have confessed to investigators that he was unhappy with his mother following his parent’s divorce, telling officers, “When I talked about my father, my mother always came to his defense, so I grew to hate my mother as well.â€
Whether similar retribution was planned for the father has yet to be disclosed.