The World's longest serving death row inmate (45 years) to be released after it's revealed he was innocent

There has long been speculation he was innocent, and in 2007 one of the three judges who originally convicted him publicly declared he had thought Mr Hakamada was innocent
Amnesty International claimed earlier this year that new DNA tests undertaken in 2012 point to Mr Hakamada’s innocence.
His sister who has spent years fighting for her innocence said she was worried about the mental state of her brother, who now ‘talks nonsense’.
‘What I am worried about most is Iwao's health. If you put someone in jail for 47 years, it's too much to expect them to stay sane..I truly believe Iwao didn't do it. But once police suspect you for a crime, that's the end of the story. It was like that back then, it is like that now.’


There has long been speculation he was innocent, and in 2007 one of the three judges who originally convicted him publicly declared he had thought Mr Hakamada was innocent
Amnesty International claimed earlier this year that new DNA tests undertaken in 2012 point to Mr Hakamada’s innocence.
His sister who has spent years fighting for her innocence said she was worried about the mental state of her brother, who now ‘talks nonsense’.
‘What I am worried about most is Iwao's health. If you put someone in jail for 47 years, it's too much to expect them to stay sane..I truly believe Iwao didn't do it. But once police suspect you for a crime, that's the end of the story. It was like that back then, it is like that now.’