Police quiz Hawker murder suspect

Mr Ichihashi is thought to have recently had plastic surgery

Police in Japan have begun questioning the prime suspect in the murder of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker.

Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, was arrested on Tuesday after being spotted at a ferry terminal in the city of Osaka.

Miss Hawker, 22, from Brandon, near Coventry, was found buried in a sand-filled bath at Mr Ichihashi's Tokyo flat in March 2007.

The suspect had been on the run since Miss Hawker's death and had reportedly undergone plastic surgery.

Miss Hawker, a Leeds University graduate, had been teaching English at Koiwa school in Tokyo when she went missing on 25 March.

Her body was discovered on the balcony of Mr Ichihashi's flat, taped-up and half-buried in a bathtub. The suspect fled when police arrived at his flat.