Age of innocence: Hideko showing a picture of her brother on May 20, 2013, in Tokyo. — AFP
THE world’s longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted by a Japanese court yesterday, more than half a century after his 1968 murder conviction.
The Shizuoka District Court ruled that 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was not guilty in a retrial obtained by the former boxer and his supporters a decade ago.
