Hair found in a condominium belonging to accused rapist Joji Obara may be that of missing Briton Lucie Blackman, a flight attendant-turned bar hostess who disappeared in July, police said Thursday.
DNA tests indicate that several strands of hair taken from a bathroom in the condominium owned by the 48-year-old Tokyo businessman in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, were Blackman's, police said.
Tokyo police obtained a DNA sequence believed to be that of Blackman by analyzing hair collected in a Tokyo apartment she lived in and samples of fingernails provided by members of her family in Britain, according to police.