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...addition to the witnesses against Obara, police discovered hospital receipts linking him to a former Roppongi hostess, an Australian named Carita Ridgeway. In 1992 he took a gravely ill Ridgeway to Hideshima hospital, telling nurses she had eaten bad shellfish. Ridgeway was erroneously diagnosed as suffering from liver failure as a result of eating seafood tainted with the virus that causes hepatitis. After she died a few days later, Obara even comforted her parents when they came to take her body home. Due to an administrative fluke, Ridgeway's liver had been preserved at Tokyo Women's Hospital, where...
...Even more serious allegations of police ineptitude have been raised by Kazuo Iizuka, the owner of Club Cadeau, another Roppongi hostess joint. Iizuka says that on a Saturday night in early October 1997 one of his employees, a young British hostess, came into his club seriously ill after going on a dohan with a man now believed to be Obara. She had been drugged and, she suspected, sexually assaulted. Iizuka says she was so pale and weak, he had an ambulance take her from his club to a doctor. Tests revealed her liver function was seriously depleted. Iizuka says...
...narrow, six-story building just off Roppongi's main drag. In an effort to erase their club's history, management has changed its name to Greengrass. Everything else is the same. Customers are still greeted when they enter the joint by a maître d' in an ill-fitting tuxedo. The lounge area is still dark. The black leather modular couches are still so mushy that customers and hostesses almost collapse into each other when they sit down. There are a dozen small tables, each just big enough for the decanter of Suntory whiskey, the water syphon...
...That farcical touch actually contributed to the victims' fate. Banerjee describes an ill-prepared administration that collapsed like a frail tree. Nearly everyone comes off as indictable: the politicians who demanded aerial surveys or motorcades for photo ops; the volunteers who scrambled for grants from aid agencies but did nothing about rehabilitation; the journalists looking for color. Relief material piled up but was not distributed. (Some ended up in Gujarat after its devastating earthquake 15 months later.) The greatest crime of all: officials responsible for relief, after failing in their jobs, were allegedly found swindling the state treasury. According...
...Timothy McVeigh?s case is unique in many ways. Until now, it hasn?t included many of the issues that are generally involved in death penalty cases, including racial inequities and ill-prepared defense counsel. But even with the government?s commitment to a fair trial and their unlimited resources, a serious mistake was made. And these are the kinds of mistakes that happen all the time in lower profile cases...