The detention for psychological evaluation of Kumiko Yasufuku, the suspect in the 1999 murder of Namiko Takaba in Nagoya, has concluded, and the prosecutors will determine her criminal responsibility based on the evaluation results.
In 1999, Namiko Takaba, a 32-year-old resident of an apartment in Nagoya's Nishi Ward, was brutally murdered. The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office announced on the 27th that Kumiko Yasufuku, a 69-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of murder, will have her psychological evaluation detention concluded the same day. The prosecutors will use the evaluation results to assess Yasufuku's criminal capacity and decide whether to file charges against her. This evaluation detention, part of the criminal procedure law, involved psychiatrists examining her mental state at the time of the crime and its impact on the incident.
