TOKYO (TR) – A 27-year-old male company employee broke into the residence of a female colleague in Ota Ward more than 20 times to steal her clothes, police said.
“I had feelings for her, but she ignored my calls, so I wanted to make her suffer,” Yuki Murai told police, reports TBS News (June 19).
At around midnight on March 30, Murai allegedly broke in the apartment of the woman, aged in her 20s, and stole six items — including clothes, bags and a security camera — worth about 15,000 yen.
Police accused Murai, who lives in Kawasaki City, of trespassing.
According to police, Murai is the woman’s supervisor. Around August last year, he found the her house key in her bag at their workplace, photographed it with his smartphone and made a duplicate key based on the number written on the key.
Murai is believed that he have broken into the woman’s residence more than 20 times since he made the kay. About 300 photos of the interior of the residence were left on the suspect’s smartphone.
The woman became suspicious of items disappearing from her home and installed security cameras, but those cameras were also stolen, police said.
