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Nicola Furlong’s mother has said she wants to see her daughter’s murderer serve his sentence in a Japanese prison instead of being moved to more lenient conditions in his native US.

Japanese court cases using a translator have sometimes had to be retried because of errors in translation, writes Rob Gilhooly in Tokyo

The family of Nicola Furlong are planning to sue the hotel in Tokyo where she was murdered.

The family of Nicola Furlong, the Irish student murdered in Japan, have said their daughter’s life was worth more than the five to 10 years in jail her killer will serve.

A guilty verdict has been returned for the man accused of strangling Wexford student Nicola Furlong, with the Tokyo court sentencing American Richard Hinds to a maximum prison term of 10 years with labour.

Nicola Furlong's family have said their daughter’s life was worth more than the five to 10 years in jail her killer will serve.

Andrew Furlong has paid tribute to the support shown to his family since their daughter Nicola was murdered on May 24 last year.

The family of Nicola Furlong have described as a "travesty" a five-10-year sentence handed down to the man who murdered her, Richard Hinds.

Richard Hinds has been found guilty of the murder of Irish student Nicola Furlong in Japan.

The father of murdered student Nicola Furlong has called on the court to hand her alleged killer the harshest sentence possible, and claimed Richard Hinds was still “harming Nicola’s dignity” through his conduct.

If convicted of murdering Nicola Furlong, Richard Hinds could face up to 10 years in an adult prison, where he may be forced to sleep on tatami mat floors without heating in winter, bath communally, and be required to undertake educational programmes aimed at understanding the grief of his victim’s family.

Prosecutors in the case of Richard Hinds, who is standing trial for the murder of Irish student Nicola Furlong, have demanded the maximum punishment permissible for a man who had shown “no remorse” and “huge disrespect” towards the victim and her family.

Prosecutors in Tokyo have demanded the maximum possible 10-year jail term for the 19-year-old accused of murdering Irish student Nicola Furlong.

The man accused of strangling Nicola Furlong told prosecutors that he was a “gentleman” who “felt sorry” for the family of the DCU student.

The man accused of strangling Nicola Furlong said the DCU student had demanded “rough sex” and “moaned” when he pressed her neck.

The Furlong family has said they are sickened by the testimony given at the trial of Richard Hinds for the murder of their daughter Nicola.

The man accused of murdering Irish student Nicola Furlong in Tokyo last year has taken the stand at his trial.

A former girlfriend of the man accused of strangling Nicola Furlong has said the accused, American musician Richard Hinds, was a “sweet” man who “wouldn’t hurt a fly”.

An American forensics expert told a Tokyo court yesterday that she found “no major mistakes” in the autopsy report of Irishwoman Nicola Furlong. She agreed that the exchange student had been strangled in a Tokyo hotel last May but disputed certain statements made by the author of the report.

The close friend of Nicola Furlong who was with her on the night of her death broke down in tears as she told a Tokyo court she believed drinks spiked with drugs were the reason the two of them blacked out after drinking with the man accused of strangling Ms Furlong and another man standing trial for assaulting the unidentified Irishwoman last May.

A key witness in the trial against the man accused of killing Nicola Furlong in Tokyo yesterday said postmortems confirmed the Co Wexford student had been strangled.

Nicola Furlong’s father said he will take the footage of his daughter’s last hours alive to his grave.

The mother of murdered Irish exchange student has said she is finding some relief by looking directly at the man accused of killing her.

The second day in the trial of an American musician accused of killing Wexford exchange student Nicola Furlong in Tokyo gets under way this morning.

The family of Nicola Furlong came face to face with the student’s alleged killer for the first time yesterday, when the trial of the American musician Richard Hinds began in Tokyo.

A man accused of killing an Irish exchange student in Tokyo has shown no remorse and should be punished severely, Japanese prosecutors said today.

The family of a murdered Irish exchange student will come face-to-face with the man accused of her killing at his trial in Japan today.

The family of a murdered foreign exchange student will today come face-to-face with the man accused of her killing at his trial in Japan.

The family of murdered Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong will tomorrow come face-to-face with the man accused of her killing at his trial in Japan.

The heartbroken family of murdered Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong is making a tense trip to Japan for the trial of the man accused of the killing.

The family of murdered Irishwoman Nicola Furlong said their lives have been on hold since the student was found dead in a Tokyo hotel last year.

Prosecutors in Tokyo have called for a four-year sentence for one of the men implicated in crimes last May against two Irishwomen, one of whom, Nicola Furlong, was found strangled in a Tokyo hotel.

A man in the US allegedly stole a Chinese delivery van and then continued to drop off orders.

The father of slain Irishwoman Nicola Furlong spoke of his anguish at her death, saying he is unable to visit her grave or disturb her bedroom.

West Bromwich Albion manager Steve Clarke made 10 changes from the side that drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur for the Capital One Cup second round tie at Yeovil Town.

The family of murdered student Nicola Furlong will attend a preliminary hearing into her murder today in Japan.

Ciarán Hinds, star of film and TV, returns to the Abbey after 20 years, in Juno and the Paycock, says Pádraic Killeen.

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Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-strewn slum and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord had risen to 73.

A Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who was jailed in Britain for inciting murder and racial hatred will be allowed into the Caribbean island because he has committed no crimes there, the government said today.

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