Boy admits to beheading

KOBE - A 14 year old Japanese schoolboy who has admitted murdering and beheading an 11 year old acquaintance may also have stabbed…

KOBE - A 14 year old Japanese schoolboy who has admitted murdering and beheading an 11 year old acquaintance may also have stabbed two schoolgirls, one of whom has died, police said yesterday.

In a letter sent to a local newspaper 10 days after the grisly crime on May 24th, the killer wrote: "I am not forgetting revenge for the compulsory education that has produced me as an invisible existence and on the society that has produced this compulsory education."

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