Suspect was 'stalking' British teacher found dead in Japan
Thursday March 29, 8:16 AM
The Japanese man whom police are seeking to arrest in connection with the death of a young British woman in suburban Tokyo was stalking her, The Times reported in an early edition of its Thursday paper.
An unnamed colleague of 22-year-old English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker at the chain of English schools in the suburbs of Tokyo told the paper: "She was stalked, that's the truth."
"She was completely blameless. Her only crime was that she was trying to help, and she was overconfident and a little bit naive in a country where she fitted the stereotype of a tall, beautiful Western girl."
Police are looking for Tatsuya Ichihashi, 28, who allegedly dashed out of his apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo, when police officers visited to question him.
Hawker was believed to have promised to provide an English lesson to Ichihashi outside of the privately run English conversation school where she worked, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Her body was found bruised and naked in a disconnected bathtub filled with sand on the balcony.
The Times reported that detectives said that Ichihashi had approached Hawker at a train station near his apartment.
"He got on the last train and talked to her on her journey home," an unidentified American friend of Hawker's was quoted as saying by The Times.
"She got on her bike and he ran behind her. This guy was a runner, he was like a college athlete."
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Suspect was 'stalking' British teacher found dead in Japan 
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