Doctor and family arrested over headless man found in Hokkaido hotel

On July 2, the headless body of Hitoshi Ura was found naked and headless in a hotel room’s bathroom in Sapporo. - HOTEL-LETS.NET

TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A doctor, his wife and their daughter have been arrested this week over the alleged murder of a man whose headless body was found in a hotel in Hokkaido earlier in July.

Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, a 59-year-old doctor, were arrested on Monday (July 24) on suspicion of mutilation, possession and abandonment of a corpse, said The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.