<p> A Japanese man who admitted to murdering 19 people at a centre for the mentally disabled grinned to news cameras today before being questioned over the country's worst killing spree in decades.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 26-year-old reportedly said he wanted all disabled people to "disappear" after the knife rampage that left his victims in pools of blood, including some who were stabbed in the neck.<br /><br />With a blue jacket draped over his head, Satoshi Uematsu was escorted out of a police station into a waiting van before a crowd of flashing news cameras.<br /><br />Inside the vehicle with the jacket removed, he smiled broadly in footage broadcast on morning news shows.<br /><br />An official at the Tsukui police station where Uematsu was held after the attack declined to comment on the investigation, only confirming that he was being transported to prosecutors for questioning.<br /><br />Uematsu is accused of breaking into the Tsukui Yamayuri-en care centre in the forested hills of Sagamihara city, outside of Tokyo, in the early hours of yesterday.<br /><br />He reportedly tied up two caregivers before stabbing residents, leaving a total of 26 people injured, 13 of them severely.<br /><br />He quickly turned himself in at a police station, carrying bloodied knives and admitting to officers: "I did it".<br /><br />He reportedly also said: "The disabled should all disappear."<br /><br />Security camera footage taken near the centre showed a vehicle arriving there shortly before the attack began. The driver opened the boot to remove objects, before walking toward the facility.<br /><br />At around 2:50 am, shortly after an emergency call was made to police from the centre, the footage shows the driver dashing back to the vehicle, carrying a large bag in his right hand.<br /><br />Uematsu left his job at the care home and was forcibly hospitalised in February after telling colleagues he intended to kill disabled people at the centre.<br /><br />But he was discharged 12 days later when a doctor deemed he was not a threat.<br />He had previously delivered a letter to the speaker of the lower house of parliament in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people, outlining a broad plan for night-time attacks against Tsukui Yamayuri-en and another facility.</p>
<p> A Japanese man who admitted to murdering 19 people at a centre for the mentally disabled grinned to news cameras today before being questioned over the country's worst killing spree in decades.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 26-year-old reportedly said he wanted all disabled people to "disappear" after the knife rampage that left his victims in pools of blood, including some who were stabbed in the neck.<br /><br />With a blue jacket draped over his head, Satoshi Uematsu was escorted out of a police station into a waiting van before a crowd of flashing news cameras.<br /><br />Inside the vehicle with the jacket removed, he smiled broadly in footage broadcast on morning news shows.<br /><br />An official at the Tsukui police station where Uematsu was held after the attack declined to comment on the investigation, only confirming that he was being transported to prosecutors for questioning.<br /><br />Uematsu is accused of breaking into the Tsukui Yamayuri-en care centre in the forested hills of Sagamihara city, outside of Tokyo, in the early hours of yesterday.<br /><br />He reportedly tied up two caregivers before stabbing residents, leaving a total of 26 people injured, 13 of them severely.<br /><br />He quickly turned himself in at a police station, carrying bloodied knives and admitting to officers: "I did it".<br /><br />He reportedly also said: "The disabled should all disappear."<br /><br />Security camera footage taken near the centre showed a vehicle arriving there shortly before the attack began. The driver opened the boot to remove objects, before walking toward the facility.<br /><br />At around 2:50 am, shortly after an emergency call was made to police from the centre, the footage shows the driver dashing back to the vehicle, carrying a large bag in his right hand.<br /><br />Uematsu left his job at the care home and was forcibly hospitalised in February after telling colleagues he intended to kill disabled people at the centre.<br /><br />But he was discharged 12 days later when a doctor deemed he was not a threat.<br />He had previously delivered a letter to the speaker of the lower house of parliament in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people, outlining a broad plan for night-time attacks against Tsukui Yamayuri-en and another facility.</p>