Ichihashi CAPTURED!!!!

TFG · #1 11-10-2009, 07:30 PM

NHK just reported that the police have captured ICHIHASHI!

Japanese police arrest prime suspect in murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker

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Japanese police have arrested the man they believe murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker and left her naked body buried in a bathtub filled with sand.

Tatsuya Ichihashi was caught just hours after Linday's mother appealed on television for him to turn himself in.

The arrest comes just days after police released new images of what they believed Ichihashi now looks like after undergoing a raft of cosmetic surgeries while a fugitive.

GuyJean · #2 11-10-2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by TFG

NHK just reported that the police have captured ICHIHASHI!

They're saying the man looks very closely like Ichihashi.. TBC..

GJ

TFG · #3 11-10-2009, 07:37 PM

They are saying he was captured trying to board a ferry bound for Okinawa & they have just reported this to the Hawker family.

Mike Oxlong · #4 11-10-2009, 07:38 PM

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstS...storyid=469802

gomichild · #5 11-10-2009, 07:41 PM

Good.

Screwed-down Hairdo · #6 11-10-2009, 07:42 PM

It's a pity....I would have preferred vigilantes got to him first. Instead, he'll go before a Japanese court and get the typically lenient sentence they give to killers of foreign women, despite sending the country on a wild goose chase for more than two years.
Chances of that happening are even higher in this case with mummy and daddy sure to open the coffers for his defense.

TFG · #7 11-10-2009, 07:48 PM

Me too, mind you the British embassy being involved adds some serious weight to the situation.

He needs a stiletto slipped through his ribcage.

GomiGirl · #8 11-10-2009, 07:51 PM

YAY - this is great news. I had been so looking foward to this post.

The amount of extra press lately was encouraging that they were closing in.

Lets see how this pans out... also would be very eager to know where he has been getting his funding!!

Screwed-down Hairdo · #9 11-10-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TFG

Me too, mind you the British embassy being involved adds some serious weight to the situation.

He needs a stiletto slipped through his ribcage.

Embassy involvement (which has always been the case when foreigners are killed) won't mean SFA to a Japanese court. He'll get a few years' prison, have the sentence cut in half for good behavior, then go out and murder another foreign woman again like those perverted creeps Obara and the guy that chopped up Honiefaith.

Mulboyne · #10 11-10-2009, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TFG

He needs a stiletto slipped through his ribcage.

I think the parents need to know more about what happened that day to their daughter so I hope he's kept on suicide watch.