Kenichi Ino, the father of a woman who was murdered in 1999 after becoming a victim of stalking, said he is saddened by a recent stalking case that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old woman in Kanagawa Prefecture.
"I'm very shocked," Ino, 75, said of the case in which Asahi Okazaki was found dead in the city of Kawasaki in April.
Okazaki had been stalked by her former boyfriend, Hideyuki Shirai, who was indicted for allegedly murdering her and abandoning her body. Okazaki had consulted the Kanagawa Prefectural Police about her circumstances. But she died without an appropriate police investigation being carried out.
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