Japanese student arrested for dismembering his sister
Afp, Tokyo
A 21-year-old Japanese pre-college student was arrested here yesterday over the death of his younger sister whose naked body was found cut into a dozen pieces at their home, police said. Yuki Muto was held on initial charges of mutilating a body, the Metropolitan Police Department said. He was expected to be also investigated on suspicion of murder. The body of his sister Azumi, a 20-year-old junior college student, was discovered by her mother on Wednesday wrapped in three plastic bags in a closet. The siblings lived with their father, a 62-year-old dentist, their mother, 57, and their older brother at a three-story building whose ground level is used as a dental clinic. Yuki told police that he had been angered by his sister's remarks that "You have no dreams," the Fuji television network reported. News of the murder dominated local media as the family was known as amicable and well-to-do with two luxurious foreign cars in a neighbourhood dotted with condominiums near the commercial hubs of Shibuya and Shinjuku. Police said the parents and the older brother, a 23-year-old dental college student, returned home late Tuesday from a three-day trip to relatives in northern Japan. Yuki was initially thought to have been away on a pre-college cramming programme since December 31.
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