The friend of an American on trial for the murder of an Irish exchange student in Tokyo has been convicted of sexually assaulting the woman she was with on the night she died.
Tokyo District Court found James Blackston guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison for the attack on the unidentified woman in a taxi on the way to a Tokyo hotel last May.
Prosecutors had asked for a four-year sentence.
Blackston, a 23-year-old dancer from Los Angeles, and his friend, Richard Hinds, who is on trial for Miss Furlong's murder, had been out drinking with the two women.
Testimony in Hinds' trial also ended on Wednesday and a verdict is expected on March 19.
According to evidence in both trials, Ms Furlong, who was studying and living about 60 miles away from the capital on an exchange programme, and her friend went to Tokyo to see a Nicki Minaj concert.
Richard Hinds is on trial for Nicola Furlong's murder After the concert, the two met Hinds, of Memphis, Tennessee and Blackston and went with them to a bar.
At some point both of the women passed out. Prosecutors have suggested they were drugged.
Security camera footage presented as evidence showed Blackston sexually assaulting Ms Furlong's friend in a taxi on the way to the hotel, where the men borrowed wheelchairs to get the unconscious women to the rooms.
Police were called to the Keio Plaza Hotel when a loud noise was heard from Hinds' room in the early hours and Ms Furlong was found unconscious. She died later in hospital.
Prosecutors say Hinds strangled Ms Furlong, a Dublin City University student from Curracloe, Co Wexford, with a towel to keep her quiet after she regained consciousness.
Hinds denies the charges.
Hinds was 19 and a minor under Japanese law when he was arrested, but is being tried in an adult court.
Although murder in Japan can carry the death penalty, prosecutors are seeking a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment for Hinds.
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