Tokyo police have arrested another Filipino on suspicion of complicity in the slaying of a Japanese couple whose bodies bearing multiple stab wounds were found last week under their Tokyo home.
Meanwhile, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it is verifying the report that a second Filipino has been apprehended in Japan in connection with the crime.
Reports said the suspect, identified as Bryan Jefferson Lising Dela Cruz, 34, has admitted his involvement in the killing of Norihiro Takahashi, 55, and his wife Kimie, 52, at their residence in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward.
Police believed that Dela Cruz was an acquaintance of Hazel Ann Baguisa Morales, 30, who was arrested Friday for the same crime.
Dela Cruz’s potential involvement in the case emerged after Morales, a former
girlfriend of the slain couple’s son, was seen with an individual in security camera footage taken in the house’s vicinity on Jan. 16, the police said.
A resident of Tsuchiura in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Dela Cruz came to Japan as a technical trainee last July. Police believe he conspired with Morales to dispose of the victims’ bodies under their home around Jan. 16.
Morales denies any knowledge of the allegations, investigators said.
The crime surface after the couple’s son called the police upon finding traces of blood at the home on Jan. 16. Officers discovered the bodies under a bathroom floor on Thursday.