TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo The greatest...

TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo

The greatest Court has upheld a life doctrine given to a man for killing a woman and setting fire to her house in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture in April 1997 court officials said Friday.

The top court's No. 2 of small account Bench rejected the appeal according to U Chit Ko, 42 from Myanmar, who was charged with fatally stabbing the woman, then 34 dousing her house with photogen and setting it on fire between April 27 and 28 in 1997

The then Urawa (now Saitama) District Court sentenc U to life in prison in 1999 saying, ''His arguments were unnatural and his alibi cannot be trusted. It was a brutal crime on committing arson to shelter up the murder.''

The Tokyo High Court later upheld the district court ruling.

U had pleaded not guilty from one extremity to the other of his trial.

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