Daughter and wife plead not guilty to murder of Oden Tokyo University owner - Naha District Court

On the 13th, the first trial of the jury trial of her daughter Mika Kyoda (38) and her husband Moriya (37), who were accused of murdering Miyako Nagahama (then (58)), the owner of the popular long-established restaurant "Oden Tokyo Dai" in Naha City in August 2022, was held at the Naha District Court (presiding judge Tomohiko Shinomiya). Both defendants maintained their innocence, saying, ``I did not commit murder.'' The verdict is scheduled for February 26th next year.

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According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, the two denied the charges during the investigation, saying, ``We did not kill our mother.'' Meanwhile, a search history of ``perfect crime'' and ``destruction of evidence'' was discovered on defendant Mika's smartphone.

Both defendants were arrested and indicted in December 2022, but the ``pretrial proceedings'' to sort out the issues at issue took a long time, resulting in an unusually long period of detention, with it taking nearly four years before the first trial.

According to the indictment and other documents, the two defendants are said to have conspired to kill Nagahama by suffocating her around August 9, 2022, by wrapping a power cord around her neck and strangling her inside the building that houses the store in Asato, the same city.