HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police have confirmed {that a} lady’s corpse discovered deserted inside a bar’s wall within the city of Hidaka earlier this month is that of a lacking nurse, studies Nippon News Network (Jan. 14).
On Tuesday, police revealed that the deceased lady is 28-year-old Hinano Kudo, who lives in Hidaka.
Kudo was final seen on the night of December 31 final 12 months. On January 10, police investigating her disappearance discovered her physique contained in the wall of bar Lady Luck.
As beforehand reported, police later accused bar proprietor Toshihiko Matsukura, 49, of abandoning a corpse.
The outcomes of an post-mortem revealed the reason for demise to have been asphyxiation. Kudo had been strangled by a rope or one thing related.
Kudo was seen on safety cameras procuring at a retailer close to her dwelling round 4 p.m. on December 31. Police imagine she was concerned in an incident shortly thereafter.
An acquaintance of Kudo’s acknowledged, “The two of them would often come out of the bar together [after hours], and they would sometimes stay overnight at Lady Luck.”
Police are persevering with the investigation on suspicion of homicide.