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November 11, 2009, Wednesday
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JAPANESE police said yesterday they arrested the main suspect in the slaying of a British teacher whose body was found taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub, ending a more than two-year manhunt.
Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, was found dead in March 2007 on the balcony of an apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo. She was an English teacher at a private language school and the apartment belonged to one of her students, Tatsuya Ichihashi.
The 30-year-old Ichihashi, who had been on the run since police found the body, was arrested on suspicion of abandonment of a body after being spotted at a ferry terminal in the western city of Osaka yesterday, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Ichihashi has undergone cosmetic surgery several times while traveling across the country, forcing investigators to verify his identity through fingerprints, the Osaka police official said. Police this month released a photo taken after his most recent facial work, with added glasses and a mustache.
Ichihashi was last known to be working as a construction worker in Osaka, living at a company dorm, before disappearing again last month.
Yesterday he was to be transferred to the police station in Chiba for further questioning. TV footage showed Ichihashi, pulling a black jacket over his head, get on a bullet train in Osaka while tightly guarded by plain clothes police.
In London, a spokeswoman for Hawker's sister, Lisa, said her family was relieved by the suspect's arrest.
In Gifu, the suspect's hometown in central Japan, Ichihashi's father, Masayoshi, said he was "relieved" by his son's arrest. He told his son via an interview with NHK: "You committed a crime. You must be brought to justice. I want you to atone for what you did."
Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, was found dead in March 2007 on the balcony of an apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo. She was an English teacher at a private language school and the apartment belonged to one of her students, Tatsuya Ichihashi.
The 30-year-old Ichihashi, who had been on the run since police found the body, was arrested on suspicion of abandonment of a body after being spotted at a ferry terminal in the western city of Osaka yesterday, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Ichihashi has undergone cosmetic surgery several times while traveling across the country, forcing investigators to verify his identity through fingerprints, the Osaka police official said. Police this month released a photo taken after his most recent facial work, with added glasses and a mustache.
Ichihashi was last known to be working as a construction worker in Osaka, living at a company dorm, before disappearing again last month.
Yesterday he was to be transferred to the police station in Chiba for further questioning. TV footage showed Ichihashi, pulling a black jacket over his head, get on a bullet train in Osaka while tightly guarded by plain clothes police.
In London, a spokeswoman for Hawker's sister, Lisa, said her family was relieved by the suspect's arrest.
In Gifu, the suspect's hometown in central Japan, Ichihashi's father, Masayoshi, said he was "relieved" by his son's arrest. He told his son via an interview with NHK: "You committed a crime. You must be brought to justice. I want you to atone for what you did."
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