Case overview
On 26 March 2007, 22-year-old English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker was murdered by 28-year-old Tatsuya Ichihashi (市橋 達也, Ichihashi Tatsuya), in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The police arrested Ichihashi on 10 November 2009. [1]
He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 July 2011. On 21 March 2009, on the run-up to the second anniversary of Hawker's death, the police released life-size cut-outs of Ichihashi to raise the profile of the case. However, it is extremely rare in Japan to be sentenced to death for killing only one person. [2]
