Man uses internet to kill dad
01/02/2006 13:58  - (SA)  

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Tokyo - A Japanese man has been arrested for allegedly ordering the murder of his wheelchair-bound father by hiring an amateur hitman on an internet bulletin board, police said on Wednesday.

Tomitaka Nomoto, 49 and unemployed, had a history of beating his 76-year-old father Tsutomu, who nagged him to get a job, said their neighbours in Matsumoto city of central Nagano prefecture.

Naoya Katayama, 36, who lived 200km away in Ibaraki prefecture, responded to Nomoto's internet posting to kill his father, a police spokesperson said.

The two men negotiated cash incentives for a range of potential crimes ranging from assault to murder. The son then agreed to pay Katayama several million yen (tens of thousands of dollars) if he killed his father within December, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

Katayama allegedly carried out the promise on December 30, striking the old man on the head with a blunt object, police said. He was also arrested.

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