Abused wife gets 15 yrs for killing husband

TOKYO: An abused wife who killed her husband, cut up his body and dumped the parts on a street and in a park was jailed for 15 years by a Tokyo court on Monday, a court official and Japanese media said.

A court on Monday sentenced a Japanese woman to 15 years in prison for beating her husband to death, sawing up his body and dumping the parts across Tokyo in retaliation for domestic violence.

The Tokyo Court ruled Kaori Mihashi, 33, had murdered her husband, Yusuke Mihashi, a 30-year-old employee of a foreign-affiliated brokerage firm, by clubbing him in the head with a bottle while he was sleeping.

She then sawed his body into five pieces, the court said. “Even though she was feeling desperate in her hellish married life, the crime was cruel,” judge Masaya Kawamoto said.