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Police in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, have arrested a 30-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing his 25-year-old ex-wife with whom he still lived.
According to police, Hirofumi Fujita turned up at a police station at around 9:45 a.m. Friday and said he had killed his former wife, Hinano Matsuike, at their residence, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said Fujita told them he had strangled her with a cord at the beginning of January in the municipal housing unit where they lived.
Police said they went to the apartment and found the body of Matsuike.
Local media reported that on Dec 5, Matsuike had called 110 to report her husband was abusing her and police issued Fujita with a warning. The couple divorced shortly after that but had continued living together for the time being, according to Fujita.
© Japan Today
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Mr Kipling
Top tip.... If your husband is abusing you to the extent that you need to call the police and get divorced, you shouldn’t be living with him!
And please don’t start with all the financial hardship tears.... there are shelters, friends, relatives.. Get out and stay out!
Do the hustle
She divorced a violent and abusive husband and continued to live with him? She should have kicked his abusive butt out onto the street.
Goodlucktoyou
Life is difficult at the bottom of the feeding chain. Unemployment, state housing, abuse.
hate these stories in the morning.
pudus
"he had strangled her with a cord"
wow...
Ma-Hu
If the apartment is in his name, which it undoubtedly is, how is a woman like this to kick out an abusive partner?
What an obnoxious sentence. As though any claims of hardship are exaggerated.
But sure, where are the shelters? Links please, to help out anyone reading this who may be in trouble.
Friends? How many friends did she have that were willing to take her in?
Relatives? Who?
sir_bentley28
Last time I checked, spousal abuse was a crime, so why did they just let him off with a warning?
Police : hey man, your wife called us to let us know that you beat her! Don't do it again!
Hirofumi : Yeah, I won't..........sure.
Ma-Hu
Women are most at risk of violence and death when trying to leave their partner, or having left him.
K
How come the women had been living with the murderer...?
The man tried to frighten her into doing that??