Osaka police arrested one of the most wanted criminals in Japan: Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, accused of the death in 2007 of Britain’s Lindsay Hawker, an English professor of 22 years.

Lindsay Hawker had been stalked by Tatsuya died of strangulation after a brutal beating at the apartment of the accused. When police went to her statement, it Ichihashi fled leaving behind the naked corpse in the bathtub.

The Fugitive “disappeared” until the health of a plastic surgery clinic, puzzled by the suspicious attitude of Ichihashi, contacted police and provided photographs of how they reshaped the face of the boy, who had already gone through the operating room. He had made several plastic surgery to change his face: epicantoplastia to change the shape of the eyes, rhinoplasty, lip, and cheeks. In October 2008 he offered a reward of 10 million yen (75,000 euros). Police received up to 8,000 calls from citizens who claimed to have seen. And one of them, made by a passenger on a ferry bound for Okinawa, which Ichihashi also expected, led to his arrest.

Ichihashi worked as a construction worker in Osaka, under a false identity and with the new look which gave him plastic surgery, but his fingerprints were located in a building, as police began to follow his trail. According to the newspaper ‘Japan Times, Ichihashi was acquiring a passport under a false identity and had planned new plastic surgery.

The family of Lindsay Hawker expressed satisfaction over the arrest of the young Japanese, but demanded that all questions are clarified assassinated because not explained where he got Ichihashi money for operations and say it may have an accomplice.