Sources familiar with the police investigation into the alleged abandonment of a boy’s body in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture say his father implied to investigators that he had killed his son after driving him to elementary school.
Police on Thursday arrested Adachi Yuuki, a 37-year-old company employee, on suspicion of abandoning the body of his 11-year-old son, Yuki, in the city of Nantan. The boy was found dead in a wooded area on April 13.
The father has reportedly admitted to the allegation during police questioning.
Investigative sources now say the suspect hinted to police during a voluntary interview before his arrest that he had strangled his son.
The sources add that the father also implied he had first taken the boy to his elementary school in Nantan by car and then moved him to another part of the city and killed him there.
Investigators have so far confirmed that the boy had breakfast at home on the morning of March 23. He had remained unaccounted for ever since, with the school’s security camera footage showing no signs of him. Police suspect that the boy had not got out of his father’s car.
The father reported his son’s disappearance to police by phone after notification by the school shortly before noon on that day that the boy had been absent. The report prompted police to look for the boy.
However, sources say the father had already revealed his son’s disappearance to an acquaintance before the message from the school.
Police on Saturday searched a public restroom situated between the boy’s home and his school, suspecting that the site has something to do with the case.
AloJapan.com