Tokyo: A Japanese man who admitted to murdering 19 people at a centre for the mentally disabled grinned before news cameras before being questioned over the country’s worst killing spree in decades, reports AFP. The 26-year-old reportedly said he wanted all disabled people to “disappear” after the knife rampage that left his victims in pools of blood, including some who were stabbed in the neck.
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With a blue jacket draped over his head, Satoshi Uematsu was escorted out of a police station into a waiting van before a crowd of flashing news cameras.
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Inside the vehicle with the jacket removed, he smiled broadly in footage broadcast on news shows. An official at the Tsukui police station where Uematsu was held after the attack declined to comment on the investigation, only confirming that he was being transported to prosecutors for questioning. He reportedly said: “The disabled should all disappear.” He had previously delivered a letter to the speaker of the lower house of parliament in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people, outlining a broad plan for night-time attacks against Tsukui Yamayuri-en and another facility..
