CHIBA — Tatsuya Ichihashi has admitted choking Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker to death in 2007, one of his lawyers said Wednesday.
"She shouted, so I choked her by putting my arm around her neck from behind. I didn't intend to kill her," the lawyer quoted Ichihashi as saying.
Prosecutors filed rape and murder charges against Ichihashi, 30, the same day, in addition to the earlier charge of abandoning Hawker's corpse.