TOKYO, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Tokyo District Court on Friday sentenced a former university student to 23 years in prison over a high-profile robbery and murder case in Komae, western Tokyo, last year.

According to the ruling by the district court's Tachikawa branch, on Jan. 19, 2023, Issei Nakanishi, the 21-year-old former student, conspired with Rikuto Nagata, 22, who is charged over the same crime, and others to break into the house of a 90-year-old woman in Komae.

Nakanishi was party to a fatal assault against the woman and theft of four items, including a luxury wristwatch, worth approximately 590,000 yen (about 4,130 U.S. dollars) in total.

In the Komae case, three other people apart from Nakanishi and Nagata have been indicted on the same charges, including 40-year-old Yuki Watanabe, who is a suspected ringleader of the criminal group "Luffy" responsible for a string of robberies across Japan.

The ruling was the first on the Komae case. Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of 25 years. Enditem

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