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Japan police arrest suspect in UK woman's murder

Japanese police arrest suspect in UK woman's murder AFP/File – Tatsuya Ichihashi seen before having plastic surgery (left) and what Japanese police suspect he looks …

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese police said on Tuesday they had arrested 30-year-old Tatsuya Ichihashi, the only suspect in the 2007 killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22.

"Police have arrested the man identified as Ichihashi," a spokesman of the Osaka Prefectural Police Department told AFP. Media reports said the suspect's identity had been confirmed using fingerprints.