Local police chief Takayoshi Tsuda visited Mr Hakamada at his home to apologise in person, telling the former boxer, 'we are sorry to have caused you unspeakable mental distress and burden. We are terribly sorry'.
A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to a man who spent 58 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was kept on death row for more than 50 of those years before being acquitted in a retrial last month. Shizuoka District Court said police and prosecutors had collaborated to fabricate and plant evidence against the former boxer, and used violence to force him to confess.
She told reporters there was no point complaining to him after all these years, as Chief Tsuda 'was not involved in the case and he only came here as his duty'. She said she agreed to the visit 'because I wanted to have a clear break from his past as a death row inmate.
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