Hooray…Ichihashi Arrested!!

This just in. Tatsuya Ichihashi is finally arrested!

At around 6:00pm today, November 10, 2009, Japanese police in Osaka have arrested the man they believe murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker and left her naked body buried in a bathtub filled with sand after luring her to his flat for a private English lesson.

He was detained while attempting to board a ferry in Osaka, according to Japanese media. The suspect is believed to have been attempting to again avoid capture, with the ferry he was boarding headed for Okinawa.

Tatsuya Ichihashi was caught just hours after Linday’s mother appealed on television for him to turn himself in.  Mr Ichihashi’s mother earlier made an emotional plea on Japanese television on Tuesday, urging her fugitive son to turn himself in to police.

“It’s mom, Tatsuya,” said the woman in an audio message. “Dad and mom have decided to speak about our feelings, although we know you won’t like this.”

She said they felt happy when they heard their son had been working diligently and had told colleagues he wanted to be good to his parents.

“If so, please go to Gyotoku police station and tell them the truth. Please,” the woman said in a sobbing voice.

Police in Gyotoku on the outskirts of Tokyo are in charge of the case.

The arrest comes just days after police released new images of what they believed Ichihashi now looks like after undergoing a raft of cosmetic surgeries while a fugitive.

Police caught Ichihashi after discovering his alias and where he has been hiding out for the last month.

He has reportedly been working as a builder for the last year at a construction company in Ibaraki, Osaka and staying in a nearby company-owned dormitory, police sources told the Mainichi newspaper yesterday.

Ichihashi had been using the alias Kosuke Inoue and his fingerprints were discovered throughout the room he was staying in, police sources told the paper.

…HOPE HE GETS THE EXACT SAME TREATMENT AS HE DID TO LINDSAY.