National / Crime & Legal Sep 11, 2020
Life sentence to be finalized for Peruvian killer of six in Saitama
Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena broke into three houses and stabbed the occupants in 2015.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 6, 2019
Tokyo High Court changes Peruvian man's death sentence to life in prison
The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's death sentence and gave a Peruvian man life in prison Thursday over the 2015 murder of six people in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture. The court ruled that Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 34, who was found guilty of robbery ...
National / Crime & Legal Mar 9, 2018
Peruvian drifter gets death for 2015 slayings of six in Saitama
The man who went on a house-to-house stabbing spree in Saitama is condemned to hang after being deemed mentally fit to be held responsible for his actions.
National / Crime & Legal Feb 19, 2018
Death penalty sought for Peruvian man charged with string of six slayings in Saitama
Prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for a 32-year-old Peruvian man accused of killing six people.
National / Crime & Legal Sep 13, 2017
A Peruvian man indicted in the 2015 killings of six people in Saitama Prefecture has a mental illness, sources said Tuesday, a development that could affect whether he can be held criminally liable. Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 32, turned out to have a mental illness ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 8, 2015
Peruvian multiple murder suspect to undergo psychiatric tests
The Saitama District Court has agreed to put a Peruvian man, arrested in October in connection with multiple murders, in detention for psychiatric tests for three months through March to see if he can be held criminally responsible, prosecutors said. During the detention period, the ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 17, 2015
Dark clouds descended on alleged Saitama killer after visiting mass-murderer brother in Peru prison
When Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena went to a Peruvian prison several years ago to visit his older brother, known as the "apostle of death" after being convicted of killing 17 people, the unraveling of his lonely, transient life in Japan was well underway. Nakada, 30, ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 11, 2015
In the early afternoon of Sept. 13, a 70-year-old resident of Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture returned home to find a young foreign man standing in front of the entryway. He seemed agitated and spoke in broken Japanese. "Call the police. I have no money," the ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 23, 2015
Peruvian murder suspect's detention suspended so he can undergo treatment
A court agreed Friday to suspend the detention of a Peruvian man arrested in connection with the murder of a couple in Kumagaya, where six people were found dead in one neighborhood in September, prosecutors said. The detention of Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 30, will ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 22, 2015
Man held over Saitama murders to undergo surgery for head injury
A man arrested in connection with the murder of a couple in a city north of Tokyo, where six people were found dead in the same neighborhood in September, will undergo surgery for a head injury, his lawyer said Thursday. Defense counsel Ichiro Muraki was ...
National / Crime & Legal Oct 9, 2015
The Peruvian man suspected of six murders in Saitama Prefecture will be given a psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental state after losing consciousness during capture.
National / Crime & Legal Oct 8, 2015
Man arrested for murder of Kumagaya couple suspected of four other killings
Police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old man who is charged with murdering a couple in a city near Tokyo where six people were found dead in three homes in September. Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena from Peru is suspected of fatally stabbing Minoru Tasaki, 55, and ...