Needle-wielding ex-madam Shiori Suzuki faces court for
attempted murder of hubby
Ex-brothel madam Shiori Suzuki didn't mind selling herself off
daily, but when her husband sought a nightly reaffirmation of their
connubial love, she felt driven to do whatever it took to stop him,
according to Shukan Shincho.
That "anything" included pumping her considerably older husband
full of insulin and putting him into a coma from which he has still
yet to emerge, according to prosecutors at the opening of Suzuki's
trial for attempted murder, which opened at the Tokyo District
Court earlier this month.
Suzuki, 34, is rumored to have spent as much as 10 million yen on
cosmetic surgery to just about every major part of her body and
face.
In March this year, her post-surgery photos, taken from her
brothel's website, were pasted all through the Japanese tabloid
media following her arrest and indictment for trying to kill her
husband, Shigeru, with a potentially lethal injection of
insulin.
Suzuki seems to have a peculiar talent for bringing hurt and pain
to those around her. In November last year, her in-laws' bodies
were found in the charred remains of a fire that gutted their home
in a case that officially remains unsolved.
Chinese-born Suzuki left little doubt where she stood at the
opening of her trial.
"She came in wearing a white shirt and black trousers that clung to
the contours of her body. Her straight, dyed brown hair reached
down almost to the small of her back and she looked every bit as
pretty as the media said she had been," a court beat reporter tells
Shukan Shincho. "She stumbled along in her broken Japanese, but the
high-pitched voice she used was the type that really turns guys
on."
Prosecutors read out the charges against Suzuki, who was asked if
they were correct. She instantly refuted them.
"I injected him, but I didn't mean to kill him," Shukan Shincho
quotes the suspect as telling the court.
But Suzuki also had plenty more to say.
"She started going on about how she and the woman accused of taking
a 5 million yen payment to get the insulin for the attack on her
husband had no intention of killing him. When the judge asked her
why she injected her husband with insulin if she wasn't trying to
kill him, the former brothel madam raised some chuckles among the
court gallery," the hack says. "She said that he was at her every
night for sex and she couldn't handle it any more and wanted to
divorce him. But she feared losing custody over their son if her
husband was still healthy, so she gave him the huge dose of insulin
to try and weaken him a bit."
Some felt it was an ironic stance for a brothel madam to take. The
opening day of the hearing saw both the prosecution and defense
present their arguments and the prosecution questioned its first
witness, a doctor called on to explain the effects of insulin on
the body.
"She kept leering at the press gallery all the time, but also
showed a softer side by giving a slight bow to the presiding judge,
witness and legal interns in the courtroom," the reporter tells
Shukan Shincho. "Those bows, however, made her look like she was
begging for help." (By Ryann Connell)