AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2001
Qld: Jury out in Yakuza murder case
A Brisbane Supreme Court jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of
a Japanese woman accused of killing her retired gangster husband, slicing him up and putting
him out with the garbage.
AKIKO KITAYAMA, 54, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her 62-year-old husband,
HAMAGO KITAYAMA, between April 13 and April 25, 1999, in their Surfers Paradise unit.
The body of Mr KITAYAMA, a retired Yakuza ganster, has never been found.
The KITAYAMAS were Japanese nationals who lived at a block of units, the Surfers Mayfair,
on the Gold Coast, on retirees' visas.
It is alleged that KITAYAMA cut her husband up in the unit, then put his body parts
in bags which were left in the basement to be collected for garbage.
KITAYAMA's alleged motive for the murder was that her husband had become too much of
a burden to her since his stroke in 1997.
AAP RTV smk/sc/art/rt
KEYWORD: KITAYAMA (BRISBANE)
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