The man arrested in connection with the murder of a 6-year-old girl in Kobe told police he could not confirm security camera footage that appeared to show him near the girl around the time she disappeared, as he had been drinking, investigative sources said Thursday.
"I don't remember whether I was walking behind (the girl) because I was drunk," Yasuhiro Kimino, 47, was quoted as telling police.
He was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of abandoning the dismembered body of the girl, Mirei Ikuta. The police plan to add a murder charge in the course of the investigation.