Master three days before the sarin gas attack. He was specially wanted for the arrest and confinement death of the notary public's office manager. On May 15, 1995, he was questioned in Akikawa City (now Akiruno City) by a police car pursuing an Aum vehicle, and was taken to the Gokaichi Police Station for a fake driver's license. The interrogator did not seem to know who he was, and was surprised when he honestly told him that his name was Inoue. After that, a policeman rushed in and deliberately bumped into Inoue, interfering with his fall, and arrested him. In the car in which he was riding, a substance that was used as a raw material for explosives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government parcel bombing and the bombing of Shimada Yumi's house was discovered. On December 26, 1995, he sent a message to Samana and his congregation urging them to leave Aum Shinrikyō. In the message, he stated that his body was still bound by the criminal acts he had committed in the name of the "Guru's Will," but that his mind was much freer than before. He also stated that the various notions he had cultivated in the cult were falling apart, that there was no need for a "final liberator" or "savior" if he wanted to attain awakening, that there was no need for a "Venerable Master," a "Righteous Master," a "Samana," or any other such rank, and that there was no need for any cult whatsoever. Trial During the trial, he showed remorse for the Aum Affair, but he tended to trivialize and shift the blame by claiming that he was not heavily used, which raised questions about the credibility of his testimony. The public treated him as a traitor and he was bashed not only by Aum but also by critics and journalists, but his attitude did not change. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tokyo District Court on June 6, 2000, after pleading guilty to the charge of arrest and confinement but not to the charge of arrest and confinement manslaughter in the case of the Meguro Notary Public Office clerk, and remaining in a liaison role in the sarin gas attack. This was the first time in the Aum Shinrikyo case that a sentence of life imprisonment was handed down in response to a request for the death penalty. However, the prosecutor