Richard Hinds guilty of Furlong murder, given max 10 years in Tokyo court

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Adam Westlake in Features, National with 15 Comments
Richard Hinds guilty of Furlong murder, given max 10 years in Tokyo court

Richard Hinds, the 19 year old American who has been on trial for the murder of Irish student Nicola Furlong, was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday afternoon. He was given the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison with labor, but not to be released until after at least 5 years.

As Hinds is under the age of 20, by Japanese law he is still recognized as a minor, and this was the maximum punishment to be handed down, which was what the prosecutors were seeking. The chief judge stated that it was clear that Hinds had shown “no remorse” for his actions, and had “tainted the honor of the victim.” Hinds was on trial for strangling Furlong in a Tokyo hotel room after he and a friend met the victim and another Irish student at a bar in late May, 2012.

Throughout the trail, evidence was presented that the young women were heavily intoxicated when leaving the bar with the two Americans, Hinds and 23 year old James Blackston. Video from the taxi they took to the hotel showed the two young men casually talking about how they were going to have sex with them, and security cameras from the hotel lobby caught them using wheelchairs to carry the Irish girls up to their rooms. Hinds pleaded that he was innocent of murder, but admitted to lightly pressing on the girl’s neck during consensual sex. Blackston was found guilty last week of sexually assaulting Furlong’s friend, whose identity hasn’t been released, during the taxi ride, and was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

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  • barry

    RIP Nicola

    Rot in hell Hinds

  • dave

    Those two men (they are men, not minors) are two disgusting human beings. I cant believe he will be allowed out to continue his life at 24 years of age. The sentencing baffles me.

  • Rick

    Hopefully these 2 POS will have to register as sex offenders in the US when they are deported to the US after serving their jail time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576886556 Richard Boyden

    This feral “BLACK BEAST” and his race of raping murdering of Whites and other “non-blacks” is common in the US. I am surprised that the courts in Japan forget so easily how many of their women are and have been raped by Black beasts to make the sentence so light for murder…unless that is because the victim in this case was not Japanese. Google “blackracismandracehate.blog and read news stories about this Martin Luther “The Fraud and Adulterer” King race.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576886556 Richard Boyden

      Stupid White women falling for the “filthy perversity of diversity” that is the spiritual core of the Black race who uses women like dogs…think AFREAKA where in the Congo an African woman is raped every hour and NOT by a White…hint hint!

      • Madelyn Rodelgio

        Sounds like the same percentage of little boys, priests, the Catholic Church….

    • Madelyn Rodelgio

      Better yet, pick up a copy of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartholome de las Casas about the savagery of European colonization. Or, better yet, get Eric Williams’ History of the Caribbean and read the chapter Black colonialists, white colonialists. As if rape is unique to only black men. Why do you think there are so many shades of black people?

  • trevon

    I hope he suffers every day in that prison for what he did, 5 years is a joke for murder.

  • Chopchop2012

    Japanese Law needs to change now. 19 years old is not under age.
    He is capable of committed crime. Therefore he should be tried in adult court.

  • Truth

    I found a video of one of these – it’s difficult for me to say “men”, so “sub-humans” on a train in Japan. This is Blackston, the man who fondled the unconscious woman’s private parts for about 15 minutes in the taxi, unaware that he was being filmed by a security camera.

    He was also found guilty of doing the same to another unconscious woman shortly beforehand when the police investigated his accommodation. None of his family even turned up in court to support him.

    This kind of behavior makes me so upset. Can you imagine how the women in the train carriage must have felt? He moves around like a very aggressive chimpanzee?

    Are these people mentally sub-normal or ill? How can they defend themselves against racist accusation when they act like this. In the samurai days he just would have been killed.

  • newyorker

    Can’t believe the two Irish girls were so naive to go on a drinking spree with american blacks!
    Aren’t they taught anything in schools in Ireland about the US and its problems with blacks.
    Two white college girls hanging out with uneducated blacks just doesn’t make any sense!

    • Madelyn Rodelgio

      Hopefully they were taught in school about the racist and savage history imposed upon blacks by white American savages that is continued up to today. The U.S. and its problems with blacks. If you parasites didn’t kidnap blacks and exploit their labor and rape their women constantly, you would not have “a problem” with blacks.

      • A Black Crime

        Hinds and Blackston are not the only Black Americans to come to Japan to rape where that have no one to blame for their tendencies. There’s Bloke T Deans (who ran from justice), Skyler Dozierwalker, and Marcus Gill, Rodrico Harp and Kendrick Ledet who all raped a 12 year old Japanese child.

        But look at the rape statistics for Africa, especially child rape statistics.

        In the US, the annual figure is 90,000 and the proportion of blacks raping whites is many times higher.

        In the Congo alone, the figure is 400,000. In South Africa, black on black, it’s over 500,000. 25 percent of black South African men have raped, nearly half said they had raped more than one person. In Nigeria, according to Amnesty International, policemen & other security forces are amongst the worst offenders. In Darfur, Sudan, over 400,000 women have been raped & girls as young as 8 years used as sex slaves. Another 400,000 in Rwanda. In Kenya, 1/8 of the size of the USA, it’s 40,000 per year. In Sierra Leone, about half the population of New York, it’s 64,000. … and, let’s face it, you’d be lucky to find a legal system in most African countries.

        Blacks were slaving blacks for a lot longer than a few white men. The white men only tapped into a black African tradition.

        Most white Americans roots only go back to after the slavery period and the vast majority of the older immigrants came over as non-free indentured servants, a minority even slaves themselves, hence they have no responsibility for the regime.

        What it all has to do with a pair of wannabe ghetto ganstas raping unconscious white girls while freeloading in Japan. I guess they just thought they would never get caught and no one would hear or understand their filthy monkey chatter in the taxi.

  • Ivy

    I don’t understand why such racist and misogynist remarks are allowed on this blog. Such generalities are the refuge of the ignorant. Read the statistics on who the perpetrators of rape in the United States are before shooting off your mouth. Most rapes in the U.S. are committed by whites.

    This case, like the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case in the USA made me very, very angry. In both cases the victims were incapacitated, and their male attackers took advantage of them, believing drunkenness meant implicit consent. This is not about race or ‘stupid white women’; this about male entitlement. One of the Steubenville rapists was white, and, not only that, this boy was a ‘friend’ of the victim.

    I was so relieved when the Japanese judge found these guys guilty, although I don’t understand why Hinds’ sentence was so light. The perpetrator of a rape that results in the victim’s death should be put away for the rest of his life ( see article on Japanese prisons; they are severe).

    • http://twitter.com/China_Marine ChinaMarine

      This has nothing to do with black, white, yellow or green… Judge people based on Demographics… I’m sorry these girls had to discover that hanging around with two “Rappers” off the streets of L.A. was the last thing they’d ever experience. These weren’t two Princeton Educated Graduate Students, these thugs off the streets, they shouldn’t have even been allowed out of the country. It just happens that a large majority of these kinds happen to be black, while I agree people should NOT judge based on Race, they should definitely Judge based on what these guys ARE… Uneducated Thugs off the street!