OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 42-year-old man for abandoning a body likely that of his mother at their apartment in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City, reports the Sankei Shimbun (July 12).
At around 8:00 p.m. on Friday, police officers working off a tip entered the residence of Mitsuji Urata, of no known occupation, and found the body of what appeared to be an elderly woman lying on her back on a bed in the living room.
The body was decomposed, but there were no visible external injuries, police said.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of abandoning a corpse on Saturday, Utata admitted to the charges. He told the Yodogawa Police Station, “I lived with my 75-year-old mother, and she died around the beginning of June.”
Prior to the discovery, a representative from a real estate company called police “A male resident said, ‘My mother died about a month ago, and I’ve left her body.'” Police then entered the residence and made the discovery.
Police are now seeking to confirm the identity of the body and the cause of death.
