Timothy Blackman asked the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday to give the maximum penalty to Joji Obara, who is standing trial for the rape and fatal drugging of his daughter, Lucie, as well as another death and the rapes of eight other women.
Lucie Blackman of Britain disappeared July 1, 2000, while working as a bar hostess in Tokyo's Roppongi district. Her dismembered body was found seven months later in a seaside cave in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, just steps away from a condominium owned by Obara.
"My children and I have been sentenced to a lifetime of sorrow," Blackman told the court, his voice shaking.
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