Tokyo:  A Japanese woman and her former partner were acquitted today in a retrial for the alleged murder of the woman's 11-year-old daughter after theTokyo:  A Japanese woman and her former partner were acquitted today in a retrial for the alleged murder of the woman's 11-year-old daughter after the pair had spent about two decades in jail.They were released in October last year after a new trial was ordered due to serious questions about their guilt -- including the validity of their confessions -- in the arson murder for which they had been convicted.And today the Osaka District Court formally found Keiko Aoki and Tatsuhiro Boku not guilty, a member of their support group told AFP. The couple had been found guilty of setting their house on fire by spraying gasoline in the garage -- a blaze that killed Aoki's daughter Megumi -- in an attempt to claim insurance money.In the... Next »

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