Police in Hachioji, Tokyo, have arrested a 77-year-old man and his 51-year-old son after the decaying body of a woman was found in their apartment.
According to police, the body has been identified as the elder man's wife. Fuji TV reported that the man, Yoshiaki Sato, went to a koban at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday and told police that he had killed his wife.
Police went to the apartment in Nagabusamachi and found the body of Sato's wife, wrapped in a vinyl sheet, lodged between a bed and the bedroom’s wall. Sato's son Junichi, a certified care worker, and his father have been arrested on suspicion of abandoning a corpse, police said.
The two suspects have admitted to the charge. Yoshiaki was quoted by police as saying, "At the beginning of January, I got into an argument with my wife, who was ill and wouldn't take her medicine. I lost my temper and started choking her. Before I knew it, she was unconscious."
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sensei258
I can't even imagine laying my hands on my wife, in a violent way anyway. But this guy will get away with murder because no judge will put an old man in jail. Now cue the internet sympathy for a guy in a stressful situation who had no other choice than to choke his wife to death.
Aly Rustom
Wait. So they both choked her? What did I miss? How's the son involved?
randomnator
He never reported the death and never made arrangements for the body to be removed, hence the abandonment charge.
Disillusioned
A certified care worker gets arrested for the death of his ailing mother? Isn't that just awesome, NOT!
sensei258
They both are charged with abandonment, or rather, improper disposal of a corpse. The husband admitted killing her but hasn't been formally charged with murder yet, that won't happen until after the investigation.
Goodlucktoyou
How can you live with a decaying corpse in your house?
SenseNotSoCommon
He should be, yes.
TheGodfather
"How can you live with a decaying corpse in your [apartment]?"
Maybe they could, but the neighbours couldn't...
Dan Lewis
He could have just let her go without her medicine as she wanted. He would get the same result, but less smelly and no penalty.
fuzzylogic
"I got into an argument with my wife, who was ill and wouldn’t take her medicine. I lost my temper and started choking her." The logic here is amazing....you never know which one has fuzzy logic.
sensei258
I kinda feel sorry for the son, being put in that situation.
Dennis Bauer
A certified care worker? :O