The elderly Japanese woman known as the “Black Widow” has described how she laced health supplements with cyanide, the day after being sentenced to hang for the murder or attempted murder of her husband and three other boyfriends. In a series of interviews with a Japanese journalist, Chisako Kakehi, 70, admitted the killings, although her lawyers have filed an appeal against her conviction. They contend that she cannot be held criminally responsible because dementia makes it impossible for her to understand the legal proceedings. “I killed people,” she told the Asahi newspaper at the detention centre where she is being held in the city of Kyoto. “But the past can never be erased out with a rubber.

Source: The Times November 08, 2017 09:00 UTC