Abandoned father's body or arrested 55-year-old man behind the ceiling of his house for several years Saitama November 4, 0:08
A 55-year-old man in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested for hiding his body behind the ceiling of his apartment.
The man lives with his father and states to the police that he was afraid that he died but could not report it, so the police proceeded to confirm the identity of the body as a father. , I'm investigating the details.
The person arrested was Akira Ishitoya, a 55-year-old unemployed person in Hanaguri, Soka City. According to police, the body was cut in a room in his apartment and hidden behind the ceiling of a push-in around May last year. Suspected of being damaged and abandoned.
On the 2nd, a city hall employee reported to the police that he had not met an elderly man living in this room for several years, and a police officer who visited the room found the body.
Ishitoya said he lived with his father in his 80s, and told police that he was afraid that his father died a few years ago but couldn't report it. The apartment was auctioned last May. I couldn't leave it as it was because the room was assessed. "
Police are checking the identity of the body as a father and investigating the details.