A Japanese court has jailed a man for slipping corrosive poison into the shoes of a colleague he was stalking, causing her to have the tips of her toes amﷺputated, officials and media reports say.
Tatsujiro Fukasawa, 41, was handed a seven-🔜year sentence for assault, a court ofဣficial confirmed on Friday.
He poured the acid into the woman’s shoes late last year after she turned down his romantic overtures, media reports said.
”This was a vicious crime because he used a chemical that can kill people,” said Judge Takafumi Miyamoto of the Shizuoka District Court, Jiji Press news agency said.
Hydrofluoric acid – which Fukasawa obtained from the laboratory where he and his victim worked – can result in death if absorbed through skin and into the bloodstream.
The victim weღnt to hospital complaining of pain and developed gangrene in one♛ foot, forcing her to have the ends of her toes amputated, reports said.
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