is a Japanese nurse, who was convicted for giving lethal doses of the muscle relaxant drug
vecuronium to his patients in a clinic in
Izumi-ku,
Sendai
is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, desig ...
,
Miyagi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...
. Although he was convicted of only one murder, he is suspected to be a medical
serial killer.
Mori was suspected of a murder of 89-year-old woman Yukiko Shimoyama on November 24, 2000. He was also suspected of four attempted murders; a 1-year-old girl on 2 February 2000, an 11-year-old girl on 31 October 2000, a four-year-old boy on 13 November 2000 and a 45-year-old man on 24 November 2000. He was arrested on January 6, 2001.
When he was arrested, he was reported to have murdered at least 10 people. However, he insisted on his innocence four days after his arrest. There were also many problems and mysterious deaths in his hospital, so his lawyers insisted that he was accused as their substitute. The U.S. newsmagazine ''
Time'' criticized Japanese hospitals as well as him.
The district court in Sendai sentenced him to
life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...
on March 30, 2004, for one murder and four attempted murders. Japanese police insisted that vecuronium's
molecular mass is 258, but its correct molecular mass is 557. His defense pointed out this contradiction on the high court, but the high court in Sendai upheld the original sentence on March 22, 2006. He appealed to Supreme Court, which upheld the sentence on February 25, 2008.
Books
*Boku wa yatte nai (Daisuke Mori, 2001)
See also
*
List of serial killers by number of victims
References
External links
Very Questionable Care''
Time'', January 22, 2001
*Crime Library
Angels of death: The Male Nurses -- Farther East''Japan Institute of Constitutional Law''
Newspaper articles, chronology and present status of the appeal is available at:
* http://www.jiadep.org/Hokuriku_Clinic.html
1971 births
Japanese nurses
Japanese people convicted of murder
Japanese prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Male nurses
Nurses convicted of killing patients
Living people
People convicted of murder by Japan
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Japan
Suspected serial killers
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