A Japanese high court on Jan 27 sentenced a 62-year-old man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for helping his daughter damage a corpse in a 2023 beheading murder case in Sapporo.

The Sapporo High Court scrapped a district court ruling that had sentenced psychiatrist Osamu Tamura to 16 months in prison, suspended for four years. Unlike the lower court’s ruling delivered last March, Tamura was not convicted of aiding in the abandonment of the corpse.