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Briton's body found in Japan bath
Lindsey Ann Hawker
Miss Hawker started her job in Japan last October
A woman found buried in sand in a bathtub in Japan has been named by police as 22-year-old missing Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker.
Colleagues identified the body of the English teacher, from Brandon near Coventry, found on a fourth-floor flat balcony in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo.
The cause of death is not yet known but there were bruises on the victim's face, the BBC's Chris Hogg said.
Police are hunting a man who fled the apartment in Chiba prefecture.
Disappearance
The BBC's correspondent said the teacher was reported missing by her flatmates on Monday afternoon after she disappeared from her home on Sunday.
Local media reported that Miss Hawker, who worked at the Koiwa school in Tokyo, had been in Japan for only a few months and was a popular teacher, he added.
The apartment block where the body was found
The apartment block where the body was found has been sealed off
They said she had gone to the apartment for the first time on Saturday to give English lessons to 28-year-old Tatsuya Ichihachi.
She had left details of the address at home before she disappeared and police are now trying to locate Mr Ichihachi.
A handbag and a passport thought to belong to the victim were found near the apartment.
The Nova language school in London, which employed Miss Hawker, said in a statement that she had graduated from university last year and had joined its teaching team on 25 October. "She took her job seriously and put every effort into it. She was trying to get used to Japan. We are very sorry that this has happened," it said.
The school was co-operating fully with the investigation, it added.
George Fisher, the headmaster of King Henry VIII School in Coventry where Miss Hawker was a pupil until 2003, said the staff were very upset by her death.
"I knew Lindsay well, she was a very popular student, and the school and staff are devastated," he said. |
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theAutumn45
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Always be careful if you are single and live in a foreign country. But here is a more gruesome story - He barbecued his girl friend 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17778595/
Burning Love
By MONICA RHOR
Updated: 8:35 p.m. MT March 25, 2007
HOUSTON - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment.
What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd lived? What was he burning at all hours, for days at a time? The answer turned their stomachs.
According to law enforcement officials, Shepherd dismembered, and then burned the body of his former girlfriend, Tynesha Stewart, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student. Nothing remains of Stewart's body, Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas said at a press conference Saturday.
"I just don't know what to think about it," said Louis Evans, whose balcony faces Shepherd's in the quiet tree-lined enclave in northern Houston. "I thought he was a nice normal person. I guess you never know what your neighbors are doing."
Authorities said Shepherd has confessed to strangling and dismembering Stewart, a college freshman who was home on spring break, because he was angry that she had started a new relationship.
Officials first thought Shepherd had disposed of her remains in a large commercial trash bin that had since been emptied, launching an intense debate in the area about whether the Sheriff's Department should conduct a massive and expensive search of area landfills for Stewart's remains.
Stewart was last seen March 15 and was reported missing March 19. The next day the Harris County Sheriff's Office homicide division launched its investigation.
On March 16, neighbors said they first noticed the unusual activity _ and the unpleasant odor _ on Shepherd's balcony.
"The smell was awful," said Evans, who also became alarmed after seeing a blaze shoot out from the grills. "I was wondering: What is he burning? Not cooking, but burning. There is a difference."
At times, Evans said, the flames from the grills leapt dangerously close to the roof of the balcony. Evans says he called 911, but when firefighters arrived, the flames had calmed and Shepherd assured them everything was under control.
A leasing agent at the apartment complex also noticed the thick dark smoke and the intense flames and asked Shepherd what he was doing, Evans said. Another neighbor, 18-year-old James Hebert, told The Houston Chronicle that he often cooked out with Shepherd, and even left his grill at Shepherd's apartment. When he wasn't invited over, he asked his neighbor what was going on. Shepherd replied that he was cooking for a wedding, the newspaper said.
Dionne Whitaker, 31, who lives in the complex, said she saw Shepherd carry the grill and smoker to a garbage bin a day or so later, the newspaper said.
Human remains generally require extremely high temperatures to destroy, and authorities have not said how it is possible that Stewart's remains could be completely burned on a patio grill.
"This certainly turned out to be one of the most heinous crimes I've ever seen in my 38 years (in law enforcement)," Thomas, the sheriff, said Saturday.
Shepherd, who is charged with murder, is being held on $250,000 bond in the Harris County Jail. Telephone message left with his attorney, Chip Lewis, were not immediately returned. On Sunday, the door to Shepherd's apartment was covered with plywood boards.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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Swiss-James
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a friend of mine lived about half an hour away from there, one night a guy broke into her apartment and tried to rape her. She fought him off by biting his hand and he fled. When the cops turned up, they found the big knife he'd brought with him.
Japanese people are scary |
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8lrr8
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Mar 28, 2007 - 11:28 AM |
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| Swiss-James wrote: |
a friend of mine lived about half an hour away from there, one night a guy broke into her apartment and tried to rape her. She fought him off by biting his hand and he fled. When the cops turned up, they found the big knife he'd brought with him.
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your story isnt all that uncommon. u shoulda mentioned other ways the japanese are freaky. nevertheless, the country as a whole is quite developed. much more civilized and hygienic than ML china. |
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bougie
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Fuuker. Reminds me of the Shanghainese weasel that murdered a young girl in toronto about 2 yrs ago ...
If there is undeniable proof, this is where the good ole hand the fuucker by the balls sentence would be nice. But only IF it is absolutely undeniably him |
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Fathai
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There are so many unstable people in this world. In some countries unstabled are institutions but in China where are they?
You may feel safe in this place but still be vigilant!
I had a story in Shanghai when i was attacked by 3 guys who pushed me when i wanted to get into the elevator in a shopping mall. I asked him not to push me and another guy told him the same. He took his mobile and 2 other guys were waiting for us, reading to beat us! The Chinese guy who helped me was sent to hospital! The police arrived but didnt do anything!
It was very scary! |
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