Police have arrested two more people in connection with the murder of a Tokyo couple whose burned bodies were discovered in Tochigi Prefecture last month, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to six.
A joint investigation team composed of the Metropolitan Police Department and Tochigi Prefectural Police on Tuesday arrested Ryo Maeda, 36, who works in a real estate company, following the arrest of Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the The eldest daughter of the couple from Tokyo, late on Monday.
The two men – along with four others previously arrested – are suspected of involvement in the torching of the bodies of Ryutaro Takarajima, a 55-year-old businessman, and his wife Sachiko, 56, in mid-April.
