Sapporo, Aug. 7 (Jiji Press)--Sapporo District Court on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for his role in a high-profile group assault case in the northern Japan prefecture of Hokkaido in 2024. The life sentence for Yuto Kawaguchi, who was 18 years old at the time of the incident, came in line with the prosecution's demand. In the same case, the court also sentenced another man, who was a 17-year-old minor at the time, to 30 years in prison, as requested by the prosecution. Kawaguchi was suspected of leading the fatal assault of Tomoya Hase, a then 20-year-old university student, at a park in the Hokkaido city of Ebetsu. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]