A 25-year-old man was served a new arrest warrant on Saturday on murder charges after he was arrested last month for allegedly disposing of the bodies of a Tokyo couple in Tochigi Prefecture.
A total of six people have been arrested over the incident, but the man, Ryoken Hirayama, is the first to be charged with murder.
A joint investigation team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Tochigi Prefectural Police believes that Hirayama was asked by another man who gave instructions to kill the couple, and that he prepared the car used in the plot and two others had recruited men to carry out the murder. murders.
