Japan man arrested for hiding dead mum’s body in flat for 10 years due to social anxiety
Police alerted about bizarre case after local official becomes suspicious, officers conduct flat search, find skeleton in toilet
Police in Japan have arrested a 60-year-old man on a charge of corpse abandonment after the body of his 95-year-old mother was discovered in her flat after being left there for 10 years.
Takehisa Miyawaki told police that he knew his mother died a decade ago, but did not report it due to social phobia, according to a report on the news website mbs.jp.
Miyawaki is unemployed and has no fixed home address.
The case aroused police attention after a public servant in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan, found Miyawaki walking with a limp on the street on May 22.
When the government official asked him for his personal information and about his mother, Miyawaki refused to say anything about her, raising suspicion.
The official then alerted the local police.
Officers then went to check the home registered in the name of Miyawaki’s mother in June.
