Chilean appeals 28-yr prison term over murder of Japanese woman

A Chilean man lodged an appeal on Wednesday over a ruling sentencing him to 28 years in prison for murdering his former girlfriend, a Japanese woman who came to France as an exchange student in 2016 and later went missing, his lawyer said.Nicolas Zepeda, 31, has consistently denied the allegation that he had killed Narumi Kurosaki, who came to study in Besancon, eastern France, and went missing at age 21 in the same year.A local French court on Tuesday handed down the prison term to Zepeda and determined that his crime was premeditated, in line with what prosecutors had claimed.But the sent…READ FULL ARTICLE