Murder of Nicola Furlong
Nicola Furlong | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 December 1990 |
| Died | 24 May 2012 (aged 21) |
| Cause of death | Sexual |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Murder victim |
Nicola Furlong (17 December 1990 - 24 May 2012) was an Irish female exchange student in Japan.
Murder
Furlong was found dead on May 24 in Tokyo at the Keio Hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. She and another Irish exchange student had attended a concert by Nicki Minaj earlier that evening.
Police arrested two Americans, one 19-year-old Richard Hinds and the other 23-year-old dancer, James Jamari Blackston, who allegedly invited Furlong and her friend Sarah Maher for drinks after meeting them at the Nicki Minaj concert. Police stated Hinds had confessed to strangling Furlong but said he had not intended to kill her. In June 2012, family members of Nicola Furlong came to Japan to take her body back to her homeland. According to police, Nicola Furlong and her friend were sexually assaulted in a taxi on the way to the hotel, where the hotel provided a wheelchair to take the comatose girls to a room. Police said the groping that took place in the taxi was captured on a security camera, as was the entrance of the two women in wheelchairs being pushed by the two men into the hotel. Results of toxicology tests of Nicola Furlong to determine whether she had been drugged and how much alcohol she had consumed have not been released.
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Conviction
On 19 March 2013, U.S. musician Richard Hinds was sentenced to between five and ten years in prison for the murder of Nicola Furlong.[14][15]
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- ^ McNeill, David (19 March 2013). "Hinds guilty of murdering Irish student Nicola Furlong: Japanese court sentences US musician to minimum of five years in prison for killing Co Wexford woman in Tokyo hotel room". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
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