TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday arrested a 64-year-old man after a corpse seemingly that of his father was discovered inside their house in Hachioji City.
According to the Hachioji Police Station, Katsuji Sato is suspected of leaving the physique at his house between September final yr and October 13, stories the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 14).
When questioned, Sato denied the costs. “I didn’t think my father was dead,” the suspect stated. “I thought he was just sleeping.”
The residence is inside a public housing complicated. The suspect lives there together with his 90-year-old father.
On October 13, a employees member from a cleansing firm entered the residence and located mummified stays in the lounge and known as police.
Sato defined to the employees member, “I have a father who can’t move, but don’t worry about it.”
Police are at present within the technique of confirming the identification of the physique.