Japan Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
CHIBA (Kyodo) Lawyers for Tatsuya Ichihashi urged prosecutors and police Thursday to improve their interrogation methods, arguing that a prosecutor had told the suspect during a grilling that he could be hanged for the 2007 murder of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker. "It is illegitimate to investigate by making up scenarios," one of the lawyers told a news conference, during which they quoted Ichihashi...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
CHIBA (Kyodo) Tatsuya Ichihashi was administered nutritional supplements Tuesday as he has not eaten anything since his arrest on Nov. 10 in connection with the 2007 murder of 22-year-old English-language teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, investigative sources said. Fearing Ichihashi, 30, could become ill, Chiba police summoned a doctor to Gyotoku Police Station to administer nutritional supplements to him,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Tatsuya Ichihashi the man suspected of killing the British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker has become a bizarre object of admiration among some Japanese women.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
CHIBA (Kyodo) Tatsuya Ichihashi, who has been arrested in connection with the 2007 murder of English-language teacher Lindsay Hawker, has undergone a medical checkup by a doctor after refusing to eat since his arrest Tuesday evening, police sources said Saturday. The clinical examination Friday evening found Ichihashi, 30, has no health problems, such as dehydration, the sources said.
Japundit (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Tatsuya Ichihashi, the prime suspect in the murder of Lindsay Hawker, has been caught. Perhaps the process of achieving justice for the family of the British teacher can begin at last. However, the Hawkers are not the only victims of this sad episode; others will suffer, albeit indirectly and to a much lesser extent, from the ensuing cultural fallout. read more
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Guardian has featured a letter to the editor by Jenny Holt, a lecturer at Meiji University who believes that the international media has used the Lindsay Hawker murder case as an excuse to “indulge in practically the only form of overt racism still tolerated today – the demonisation and denigration, en masse, of Japanese [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Naoki Motoyama (本山直樹), guest professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture, addresses [ja] a post to Tatsuya Ichihashi （市橋達也）, the alleged murderer of Lindsay Hawker captured on Tuesday after having been on the run for almost two years. The blogger, who used to belong to the same karate club at Chiba School of Horticulture as Ichihashi,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tatsuya Ichihashi the Japanese man in custody in connection with the killing of British teacher Lindsay Hawker in March 2007 has refused to eat since he was arrested earlier this week.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tatsuya Ichihashi, who was arrested on Tuesday after more than two years on the run, stayed silent during initial questioning over the death of the 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, police said.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
THIS is the man accused of killing Brit teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker and then burying her naked body in a bathtub of sand on his balcony.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
CHIBA (Kyodo) Tatsuya Ichihashi, suspected in the murder of English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, was sent to prosecutors Thursday. Ichihashi, 30, was turned over to the Chiba District Public Prosecutor's Office by Gyotoku Police Station in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, technically on suspicion of abandoning Hawker's body in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of his Ichikawa apartment in March 2007....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The arrest of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, on suspicion of abandoning the body of Ms. Lindsay Ann Hawker, a 22-year-old Briton who taught English, brought immense relief to the Hawker family, who fought relentlessly for justice in the murder case for more than 2 1/2 years. As the father, Mr. Bill Hawker, put it, "Our nightmare is finally over." For their part, the Chiba prefectural police must...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A Japanese man detained over the murder of a young British teacher has refused to speak about the case following his arrest earlier this week.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
After two years and seven months on the run, it was murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi's repeated bids for cosmetic surgery that finally got the police on his trail after many previous failed attempts. Ichihashi, 30, suspected of slaying Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker in 2007 in Chiba Prefecture, finally left a trail when he appeared at a clinic in Nagoya for plastic surgery in late October. Later, it was...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
CHIBA (Kyodo) Tatsuya Ichihashi was carrying two gun-shaped mace canisters and about ¥300,000 in cash when he was arrested Tuesday in Osaka after more than 2 1/2 years on the run, investigative sources said Wednesday. Chiba Prefectural Police investigators began questioning Ichihashi, 30, Wednesday morning, about the circumstances leading to the 2007 slaying of Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, and about...
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