Satoshi Uematsu

Death penalty ordered for mass killing at care home in Japan

Yokohama District Court orders 30-year-old Satoshi Uematsu to die by hanging for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring 24 others at the Yamayuri-en residential buildings in July 2016.

Japan knife attacker wanted to kill the 'severely disabled'

Satoshi Uematsu, who killed 19 people in a centre for those with disabilities sought a world 'in which the severely disabled can be euthanised'.

Knife attack claims 19 lives in Japan

Police in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 26-year-old who turned himself in after stabbing 64 people at a centre for the disabled.