More body parts found, man arrested
This news is just coming through the Japanese news feeds. It is a follow-up to the story I posted a few days ago about the torso of a Philippino woman being found mutilated in Tokyo. Well it looks like the police have got off their behinds and possibly found the guy who did it. This, from Kyodo News:
Man held over death of woman whose mutilated body was found in Tokyo condo
Police arrested a 48-year-old man Monday over the death of a woman, a part of whose mutilated body was found in a high-rise condo unit in the Odaiba waterfront area of Tokyofs Minato Ward last Thursday. Hiroshi Nozaki was held on suspicion of damaging the body of the woman, who the police identified as Honiefaith Ratilia Kamiosawa, 22, a food service worker of Philippines nationality.
Nozaki, who in 2000 was arrested and later sentenced to three years and six months for mutilating and abandoning the body of another Filipina, has kept silent during questioning, police said. Before his arrest, Nozaki was taken to hospital after attempting to commit suicide Sunday night by slashing his wrist in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, about 15 kilometers north of central Tokyo. Police later found more than 10 body parts of the Filipina in a suitcase in a locker at another building in Minato Ward, based on a note he handed to the ambulance crew. The head of the body has not yet been found.
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Now here I must commend the police for their speedy work in catching this guy, although you’d like to think that they were already considering him (as he has form of doing it). That is, unless, there was one of those foreign savages within distance that could have done it! Hopefully Nozaki will tell police where the rest of the body is so that the family of Ms Kamiosawa can have some closure. Shocking story, although it seems to be a bit of a trend with Jane Wilkinson commenting that body parts have been found on a UK beach too.
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You have to wonder if a lot of time was wasted interviewing people in the Filipino community looking for a criminal there.
Another concern I have is how he avoided the murder charge in 2000 and just got off lightly with the mutilation and disposal of a corpse charge. There are way too many grey areas in the law that come into play when a non-Japanese is involved.