Behind the News - 1 April 2007
Young British teacher murdered in Japan
A young British woman found dead in a bath full of sand on the balcony of a Tokyo flat was a dedicated teacher who had only been in Japan five months, her company has said. Lindsay Ann Hawker graduated less than a year ago from Leeds University and was teaching English at Koiwa school in the capital. The 22-year-old, from Brandon near Coventry, was reported missing on Monday by the Nova language school, where she worked.
As part of their inquiries, police visited the flat of a 28-year-old Japanese man - described as an acquaintance of Miss Hawker's - in Ichikawa, just east of Tokyo, and made the grim discovery.
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A young British woman found dead in a bath full of sand on the balcony of a Tokyo flat was a dedicated teacher who had only been in Japan five months, her company has said. Lindsay Ann Hawker graduated less than a year ago from Leeds University and was teaching English at Koiwa school in the capital. The 22-year-old, from Brandon near Coventry, was reported missing on Monday by the Nova language school, where she worked.
As part of their inquiries, police visited the flat of a 28-year-old Japanese man - described as an acquaintance of Miss Hawker's - in Ichikawa, just east of Tokyo, and made the grim discovery.
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