 Evidence was presented stating that Nishimura had ordered the shootings at Parit Sulong and the destruction of bodies.Nishimura was found guilty and was executed by hanging on 11 June 1951.In 1996, Australian journalist Ian Ward suggested that the Australian Army prosecutor, Captain James Godwin—a former Royal New Zealand Navy pilot who had been ill-treated as a POW in Sumatra—had "manipulated" evidence to implicate Nishimura.