Killer who shot ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe dead with homemade shotgun-style weapon in horror assassination jailed for life

THE gunman who assassinated Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been jailed for life three years after the shocking killing.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, gunned down Abe in the street in broad daylight using a shotgun-style homemade weapon.

Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, is taken to prosecutors in Nara, Japan
Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, gunned down Shinzo AbeCredit: Reuters

The assassin admitted to carrying out the cold-blooded slaying three months ago and was today found guilty of murder.

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