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Posted Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:22pm AEDT


A Japanese father has called for his own son to hang after a gruesome murder spree in which the teenager killed three family members before slashing open his mother's belly and putting a doll inside.


The father says he will seek the death penalty for his 18-year-old son, who is a fan of the grisly Hannibal Lecter novels and has written horror stories himself.


"The only solace is he didn't kill people outside the family," he told Thursday's edition of the the Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine.


"I'm grateful some people advised me to get him an excellent lawyer, but I hope to see an early ruling," he said.


"I want him to get the death penalty - that's my honest feeling now."


The teenager, who cannot be identified because of his age, has admitted stabbing to death his mother, brother and sister with a large survival knife on January 9, a police official said.
He then reportedly cut open his mother's belly and put a doll inside before torching the family's apartment in the northern town of Hachinohe.


The father says his son told him he was writing a novel about seven criminals who get together to destroy a town. One scene reportedly depicts a man stuffing a doll into his mother's body.
His 55-year-old father says he felt disgusted when he saw his son grinning in pictures taken after his arrest, and wanted him to hang.


"I will make it clear in court. I don't know how he'd feel about it. But I want to tell him I'll pick up his bones for sure," he said.


In Japan, relatives traditionally take the bones of a cremated body in an urn for burial.


The father, who divorced the boy's mother a decade ago and has been in and out of prison on blackmail charges, admitted he was partly responsible for his son's poor upbringing.


He said while he was in prison, his son sent him the Hannibal Lecter novels by Thomas Harris about the psychiatrist turned cannibal serial killer portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.
-AFP

XemnasXD wrote:kid didn't get that f*cked up overnight....someone should've seen this coming...

DarkJackal wrote:*flicks his tongue and hisses*

Yea lol, pretty messed up >.>, though I liked those movies ;x, but not particularly the gore parts.

DarkJackal wrote:No, this is an example of the kind of messed up ppl there are, something like this would of happened eventually, stories don't turn ppl into killers >_>..

Pilot wrote:

DarkJackal wrote:No, this is an example of the kind of messed up ppl there are, something like this would of happened eventually, stories don't turn ppl into killers >_>..

Yeah, its just an extreme case. I dont find many stories like this making headlines. For normies like you and me, stories wont mutate you into a cereal killer.

Reise wrote:I love how instead of focusing on the important things, like justice for example, people continue to bicker about what caused the guy to do it. Maybe he just felt like killing everyone around him one day, who cares. Fact is he did it, and his dad is pissed. I see nothing wrong with his decision to pursue the death penalty.

Reise wrote:I love how instead of focusing on the important things, like justice for example, people continue to bicker about what caused the guy to do it. Maybe he just felt like killing everyone around him one day, who cares. Fact is he did it, and his dad is pissed. I see nothing wrong with his decision to pursue the death penalty.

Pilot wrote:Three people just died in the saddest way possibly imagined. It would be devastating to the family. You can talk nonchalently about this-hell, it didnt happen to you, right? When you and others think like that, it just becomes an ingratitude to the affected family and makes you seem just cold.

Reise wrote:What's done is done.

Reise wrote:

Pilot wrote:Three people just died in the saddest way possibly imagined. It would be devastating to the family. You can talk nonchalently about this-hell, it didnt happen to you, right? When you and others think like that, it just becomes an ingratitude to the affected family and makes you seem just cold.

If I spent my days feeling sorry for every person who died in "the saddest way imagined" not only would I have no time for anything else, but I would also probably be quite depressed myself. It may sound cold but it really isn't. Anyway it's got nothing to do with why the person did it, since it doesn't matter. What's done is done.