The man responsible for stabbing two Taiwanese students to death has apparently killed himself whilst police were taking him back to the station – using a knife police neglected to remove from his trousers.
The 30-year-old Taiwanese man being sought on suspicion of murdering the two students was spotted by police at a SKE48 performance in Nagoya.
They stopped him, and he voluntarily agreed to go along with officers for questioning at the local station; they took him back to the station in a police vehicle, but when they arrived at the station and “police were not looking at him” he suddenly cut his own throat with a knife he had cunningly concealed in his trousers.
..... police got trolled
He was immediately taken to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. In a stunning display of incompetence, police had apparently failed to search him properly at the venue or when putting him in their car – although they say they conducted an “inspection of his person.”
Prior to his death he had supposedly apologetically confessed to officers, saying “I stole from them. What I did to them was inexcusable. I did it with a fruit knife.”
Police have said they will investigate whether his detention was conducted properly. The presiding officer has said that “It is regrettable that a suspect committed suicide. I would like to investigate these circumstances further.”
The gross incompetence of Japanese police is not particularly surprising to many, although so great is their reputation for corruption and malfeasance that many are highly suspicious of the actual circumstances surrounding the man’s death
