THE only suspect in the murder of Coventry teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker has been arrested by Japanese police.
Japanese media reported that officers detained 30-year-old Tatsuya Ichihashi at the ferry port in Osaka city after receiving an emergency call on Tuesday.
It was suggested he was waiting for a ferry bound for the island of Okinawa in the far south-west of Japan and was reported to have told officers: “I am Ichihashi.”
The fugitive disappeared after Lindsay’s body was found on his balcony in Tokyo in March 2007.
The 22-year-old former Ernesford Grange and King Henry VIII pupil had been teaching Ichihashi English in a coffee shop before she went to his house.
Ichihashi fled from police just minutes before detectives found the teacher’s body in a sand-filled bath.
At a press conference at the Hawker’s home in Brandon, near Coventry, Lindsay’s father Bill, said: “The chief investigator office told me we always get our man and they have done. This has been a long, hard battle. We have worked tirelessly as a family and have never given in for our daughter.
“We have wanted justice and we have finally got it.”
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are glad and relieved that the only suspect in this case, Tatsuya Ichihashi, has been found and is now in police custody.”
Earlier this month images were released of Ichihashi of how he might look after it was reported he had undergone plastic surgery.
It is thought he invested in cheek implants and lip-thinning treatments in an operation a fortnight ago.
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