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Joji Obara was born in 1952 and is 72 years old now.
Birthday: 1952
How Old - Age: 72
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Joji Obara - Biography
Joji Obara (織原 城二, Obara Jōji, born 1952) is a Korean-Japanese man who has been convicted of committing multiple rapes in Japan. Most notoriously, he was accused, but not convicted, of raping and murdering Australian national Carita Ridgway in 1992 and British national Lucie Blackman in 2000.
In October 2000, Obara was arrested and charged with drugging, raping, and killing Blackman and another hostess, 21-year-old Australian model Carita Ridgway, who was drugged by Obara and died of a chloroform overdose on February 29, 1992. Obara was also charged with raping six other women. According to the indictment, he made Blackman a drink containing a drug before raping her at a condominium in Zushi, subsequently killing her. Obara has maintained his innocence, claiming the drugs that caused her to die were self-administered.
Obara was charged with drugging, raping and killing Blackman, as well as with raping six other women and the manslaughter of another hostess. On April 24, 2007, Obara was jailed for life on multiple rape charges and one manslaughter, but he was acquitted of Blackman's rape and murder.
Evidence supporting his guilt of rape included the approximately 400 videos he took, which showed him engaged in date rape activities. For the charge of manslaughter of Carita Ridgway, the prosecutor produced an autopsy report showing traces of chloroform in Ridgway's liver and a paper trail showing that the accused accompanied Ridgway to the hospital before she died. In Blackman's case, however, the prosecutor could not produce any forensic evidence linking the accused to her death. Even her cause of death could not be determined.
In early December 2010, the Supreme Court of Japan rejected Obara's appeal and upheld his life sentence.
