Police in Tokyo have arrested a 43-year-old married man on suspicion of killing his 37-year-old pregnant girlfriend at her apartment in March.
According to police, Ken Takahashi, a company employee who lives in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, is accused of using a cord to strangle Nozomi Narita early on the morning of March 12 at her apartment in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Kyodo News reported. Police said an autopsy revealed that Narita was pregnant at the time of her death.
Police said Takahashi has admitted to killing Narita and quoted him as saying that he hadn’t told her he was married and that he had led her to believe he would marry her. Police said he told them the two started arguing when he told Narita he was married and that he strangled her.
Police believe Takahashi tried to make it look like Narita had hanged herself but the autopsy showed she had been strangled.
Narita was a single mother. Her daughter who had been away from the apartment found her mother unresponsive when she returned and called 119. The daughter told police that her mother had said she hoped to marry Takahashi. Police said Takahashi had registered on several online dating sites.
© Japan Today
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uaintseeme
Just wear a condom.
bokuda
Japan is becoming a boilerplate about to explode.
All this crime raise is not a coincidence.
Watch your back.
Zaphod
Disgusting. There is a gigantic hanky panky industry here where he could get his rocks off. Instead, he lies, makes false promises, and then "solves" his problem with murder. I hope he does not have kids with his wife; that would make it even worse.
oyatoi
War is hell!
Zaphod
bokuda
Nothing to do with Japan. Sadly, homicidal scum like this exists everywhere.
Alex
Wow, everything about this is wrong. RIP to the young woman and her unborn child. Funny, this comes after the ex-Olympic minister telling Japanese women to just get married...and here was the result of this poor woman thinking she was getting married. She gets murdered instead by her would-be partner. On top of the fact of the unborn child he also murdered, in a country that desperately with an aging population problem. Quite a lot of sad news today... I hope this sicko will be charged with murder of two individuals.
Axel
What a terrible story. He'll never be released which is good but it won't bring her back....
Steve
What’s up with all the killings thesedays?
Maxspeed
So many people paranoid because there are two or three stories a day. We'd be lucky to get only that much back in Florida:
kaimycahl
@uaintseeme Just tell the truth!!!!!
Just wear a condom.
Mocheake
Be responsible for all of your actions. He should go to the gallows.
Steve
Lock him up or better yet execute him asap. Save the tax payers money! What a creepy monster!
JTC
Regardless to the other Comments made here, my first thoughts, are of sadness, and go out to the Daughter who found her Mother.
How old was her Daughter ? I hope that she has someone else to look after her, Grandparents, Relations, etc.
Imagine a 10 year old coming home to find such a situation ? Can any sane Person not afford a lone tear in that case ? I truly hope, that she has someone to take care of her going forward.
As to the Crime itself - it's unspeakable.
Hercolobus
Another callous and cowardly act from a deceiver.