Ichihashi CAPTURED!!!!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Storyon the local fascination for Ichihashi from the Telegraph.

[kino]

[Coligny]

Yeah yeah - it is all fun and games until somebody ends up in a tub full of sand. Bad form girls!!

These are the sort of bimbos who write to death row inmates to feel edgy.

It look like some kind of photoshop made by a fuked up guy somewhere in his basement...

Not saying there is no dumb enough broad to do it... But usually, it's a keitai shot in front of a mirror with the statement written on a piece of paper.

[Mulboyne]

Ichihashi's defence team claims police told him "If you don't say anything, it'll be the death penalty for your parents". They are looking at other instances of inappropriate behaviour in the investigation.

From the Asahi (Japanese)

[IkemenTommy]

Ichihashi's defence team claims police told him "If you don't say anything, it'll be the death penalty for your parents". They are looking at other instances of inappropriate behaviour in the investigation.

Here comes the Japanese Johnnie Cochran.

[Greji]

Ichihashi's defence team claims police told him "If you don't say anything, it'll be the death penalty for your parents". They are looking at other instances of inappropriate behaviour in the investigation.

Waterboard the motherfucker 'till he croaks like a toad and if his "legal team" complains, do them too! TIJ. Don't need Miranda....

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi:

Lawyers for Tatsuya Ishihashi, the 30-year-old man arrested in connection with the 2007 killing of a Briton, submitted a formal request to police to improve their treatment of the suspect on Thursday.

According to Yasushi Sugeno and other lawyers representing Ichihashi, their client came to a meeting with the defense team on Wednesday with notes describing the interrogations. "The media has visited your relatives. It's because you won't say anything," the Chiba Prefectural Police told Ichihashi, according to the suspect's notes. Ichihashi claimed that during questioning by the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office on Tuesday, investigators said: "If you remain silent, you won't be able to reenter society. The death penalty is a possibility," and "If you don't talk, your parents should be sentenced to death."

In the meeting on Wednesday, Ichihashi asked his lawyers whether such comments were acceptable. When told that such interrogations were illegal and that an official notice demanding better treatment could be submitted to investigators, he asked them to do so.

"Raising the death penalty during interrogations over a charge of corpse abandonment is a problem," said Ichihashi's defense at a press conference on Thursday. "It is a grave violation of the right to remain silent."

Ichihashi, who has refused food since his Nov. 10 arrest, received a glucose injection from a medical professional on Tuesday. His lawyers said that their client told them, "(The shot) made me feel unwell. I'm not in a state where my life is at risk."

The suspect continued to refuse food on Thursday, and has yet to talk about the circumstances surrounding the victim's death or the reasons for his refusal to eat. However, "he has gradually begun to explain his reasons for remaining silent," members of his defense team said.

In response to the official notice from Ichihashi's legal team, Chiba Prefectural Police said, "We are conducting appropriate investigations in accordance with the law."

[Behan]

Do arrested people have the right to remain silent? I thought that people didn't have the right to have a lawyer present and that the police might interrogate for something like 16 hours a day.

[Kuang_Grade]

I can't see why prosecutors couldn't say 'your parents should be snuffed out just for producing a piece of shit like you', which is just an opinion and not much of a threat...Now if they said something like, 'we will kill your parents if you don't start talking', that might be a bit much. Likewise, don't the cops have pretty wide discretion about questioning beyond the scope of the initial charge?...it is not much of a stretch given the body found in his apartment

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of threat regarding the parents had been made.
Implying harm to a third party is a standard torture procedure and I'm sure the police currently interrogating Ichihashi would be at something of a loss over how to break him. It seems unlikely to me that a third party threat will work as he seems to be self-centered and lacking empathy for others.
Were I the police, I would be seriously considering the detention cellmates assigned to Ichihashi (though I would guess with his high profile, he is being kept in solitary).
They can still hold him for a while and will add new charges to give themselves more leeway. I'm pretty sure they will break him in the end, just because of the track record here. How they'll do it, though, I don't know (and dread to think, really).

[American Oyaji]

Or what if the statement and the leak about the statement was all done on purpose?

[Mulboyne]

Ichihashi has now not eaten for 2 weeks since his arrest. Doctor say that the risk of health problems is increasing all the time. He has been drinking water and green tea which leads one doctor to suggest that he might even suffer from water intoxication if he drinks too much without taking any nutrients. If the situation continues, he may need to be transferred to secure premises with medical facilities.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Ichihashi has now not eaten for 2 weeks since his arrest. Doctor say that the risk of health problems is increasing all the time. He has been drinking water and green tea which leads one doctor to suggest that he might even suffer from water intoxication if he drinks too much without taking any nutrients. If the situation continues, he may need to be transferred to secure premises with medical facilities.

Feed him suppositories....really BIG ones.

[Mike Oxlong]

Feed him suppositories....really BIG ones.

Are you saying that's what happened to the beauty queen partying in Trinidad? Starved herself thin, then took some "nutritional suppositories" when the contest was over and done with?;) Maybe the photog in the leaked vid will volunteer to feed poor starving prisoner Tatsu, too...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Maybe the photog in the leaked vid will volunteer to feed poor starving prisoner Tatsu, too...

I agree... I reckon Ichihashi with his hunger strike (WTF for? To protest a murder he's almost certainly committed <and still not been charged for>) should be thrown behind bars with a group of badasses willing to mete out criminal justice and who will quickly give him some Miss Japan treatment.
I must confess to not realizing how evil this cunt is. I'd love to throw him in a cell with a rampaging fag who's built like Lennox Lewis. I hope the fag would enjoy it, too.

[IkemenTommy]

Ichihashi ate an entire bento todayand the 2ch is going nuts over it.

Hardly worth the news but I am sure someone had to post it sooner or later.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Ichihashi ate an entire bento todayand the 2ch is going nuts over it.
Hardly worth the news but I am sure someone had to post it sooner or later.

This is fucking massive! It reminds me of when I use to work for a huge corporation here. When it came to election time, we all had to work late. And the main concern of everybody made to work was whether the company would get them their bento or not.

BTW, did he eat it through his arse?

[Mulboyne]

Ichihashi ate an entire bento todayand the 2ch is going nuts over it.

Hardly worth the news but I am sure someone had to post it sooner or later.

Good spot. a yakiniku bento, I see.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Good spot. a yakiniku bento, I see.

I wonder whether a diet of a few days' worth of weiner made him change his mind?

[Mike Oxlong]

Japan Probe is reporting that Ichihashi ate a teriyaki chicken bento, and the putative existance of a makeout video with the victim...

[Christoff]

Doesnt everybody eat teriyaki chicken bento before killing foreigners and burying their bodies in bath tubs full of sand?

[Greji]

Doesnt everybody eat teriyaki chicken bento before killing foreigners and burying their bodies in bath tubs full of sand?

Exactly. I think that is in most books of etiquette and I believe it also recommends fava beans and a good Chianti..

[Mike Oxlong]

Doesnt everybody eat teriyaki chicken bento before killing foreigners and burying their bodies in bath tubs full of sand?

If I understood the Japan Probe report correctly, Ichihashi broke his recent hunger strike while in police custody with a chicken teriyaki bento. The same post links to a rumor of a bit of mutual physical contact between perp and victim captured on videotape existing.

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Ichihashi to be arrested over Hawker's death

Tatsuya Ichihashi, under arrest for allegedly abandoning the body of Lindsay Hawker in 2007, is set to be rearrested soon on suspicion of murdering the British woman, police said Sunday. Investigators told reporters they had found no evidence that anyone other than Ichihashi and Hawker entered his apartment from the time the English teacher went there in March 2007 until the police discovered her body there the following day. The police said they have therefore decided to rearrest Ichihashi, 30, on suspicion of having strangled Hawker, 22, while she was in his apartment in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. Ichihashi has remained silent about the case, refusing to talk even about the charge of abandonment of Hawker's body. "[Because of this lack of cooperation] we made the decision after having taken all of the available information into account," a senior investigator said Another senior investigator said, "There's circumstantial [evidence] as well as the results of analysis of items found in Ichihashi's room."

According to the investigation team, Ichihashi and Hawker were captured on CCTV footage together in an elevator in his apartment building at about 10 a.m. on March 25, 2007. At about 10 p.m. the following day, police officers, who had received a search request from a language school that employed Hawker, found the teacher's body in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of Ichihashi's apartment. Ichihashi, who was at home when the police officers visited, refused to comply with their orders and fled. He was then placed on a police wanted list. According to those close to investigators, the police have concluded that no one other than Ichihashi and Hawker entered his apartment based on analysis of images captured by the security camera and interviews with neighbors. Investigators suspect the victim was strangled because an autopsy showed that cartilage in her throat was broken.

The sooner they do this the better, not least because it will shut up foreigners like Debito who thought the initial charge of abandonment indicated a lesser respect for foreign victims. The general point may well be true but it was pretty clear that, in this particular case, it was simply a procedural move and not indicative of anything.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

The sooner they do this the better, not least because it will shut up foreigners like Debito who thought the initial charge of abandonment indicated a lesser respect for foreign victims. The general point may well be true but it was pretty clear that, in this particular case, it was simply a procedural move and not indicative of anything.

I agree that the delay in placing a murder charge on Ichihashi was a procedural move that was always going to happen and it had nothing to do with the victim being a foreigner.
But -- and I'm speaking generally as opposed to the specifics of this case -- I loathe and detest the way police here use this tactic. It deliberately delays the judicial process and is a way of denying suspects a chance to effectively defend themselves and, at the same time, subjects them to the particular abuses of the prosecuting system. Any and all charges should be laid at the earliest possible moment and brought to trial ASAP, ensuring in the meantime that the defendant has enough time and ability to prepare a defense.

[Mulboyne]

...I loathe and detest the way police here use this tactic. It deliberately delays the judicial process and is a way of denying suspects a chance to effectively defend themselves and, at the same time, subjects them to the particular abuses of the prosecuting system...

Agreed. One of the weaknesses the police have is an over-reliance on confessions. Extended confinement is the main leverage they believe they have to get them. They need to focus more on building a case, bringing charges and then getting the suspect to answer them.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

They need to focus more on building a case, bringing charges and then getting the suspect to answer them.

Absolutely! And the courts need to chip in by giving credence more to physical than circumstantial evidence.

[Mulboyne]

There's a ZakZak report (Japanese)which wonders whether Ichihashi plans to carry on saying nothing even during his trial. One journalist is quoted saying that it may not be a particular tactic on his part, it may just be that he's lots his grip on reality.

The report suggests that silence may not be a good idea anyway. If he wanted to implicate someone else, or show that he didn't intend to kill, then he would need to speak up at sometime. As it is, the police appear confident that no-one else was involved.

He could of course, change his current stance as quickly as he changed his mind about not eating

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

The report suggests that silence may not be a good idea anyway.

I can understand why he won't talk to the police (and maintain that silence when he's sent to the prosecutors).
There's much less sense being silent when he goes to trial...the court will assume that he is in complete concordance with the prosecution argument and hand down a sentence accordingly. TIJ, there's no OJ cases here, and there's more than enough circumstantial evidence to put him away for the maximum term if that's all the court deems is needed.

[let`s talk]

it may just be that he's lots his grip on reality.

Oh, no. He knows very well what he is doing. The result of his hunger strike was his transfer from Chiba police station with long hours questionings to the medical facility of the Chiba detention center far from cops. The instant he arrived there he had his lunch.
He is not saying anything because he knows how the system works and it gives him hope. If he confesses, his hope will be gone. That is his tactics. The "sweet boy" (his mom`s words about him) is far to be in the dark.