Tokyo High Court upheld life sentence for the suspect who raped and killed young British teacher

Earlier today (April 11), the Tokyo High Court upheld the life sentence of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32, a Japanese national who raped and killed Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, a young British teacher who taught Ichihashi English in 2007, and later buried her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub. When Ms. Hawker disappeared, leads eventually led police to Ichihashi’s apartment in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, to find her naked body bound at the wrists and ankles in a bathtub filled with sand on Ichihashi’s apartment balcony. Read article