A Chilean man on Tuesday was sentenced to 28 years in prison for murdering his former girlfriend, a Japanese woman who came to Besancon, eastern France, as an exchange student in 2016 and went missing at age 21 later in the year.The ruling by a local French court came a day after prosecutors demanded lifetime imprisonment, the maximum sentence, for Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, 31, claiming the murder of Narumi Kurosaki was premeditated.France does not practice capital punishment.Zepeda has repeatedly denied the allegation, and on Tuesday, he reiterated in court that he was not a murderer.The p…READ FULL ARTICLE