Remorseful: Yamada (left) bowing in apology to Hakamada (second from right) after his acquittal was confirmed in a retrial in October, as his sister Hideko (right) looks on, in the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. — AFP
A senior Japanese public prosecutor bowed in apology to Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner whose conviction was quashed this year.
The octogenarian spent 46 years on death row for a quadruple murder in 1966 but a court acquitted him in September, ruling that evidence had been fabricated.
