Man, 46, attempted to kill teen girl after she requested via Twitter
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on March 7, 2021
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropoltan Police have arrested a 46-year-old man who is alleged to have attempted to kill a teenage girl after she requested that he do so online, reports the
Mainichi Shimbun (Mar. 6).
On January 31 and the following day, Akio Suto, of no known occupation, forced the girl, 19, to consume a drink laced with a sleeping powder and choked her around the neck at his residence in Katsushika Ward.
At some point, the girl backed out of the plan. “I want to go home,” she said. “I want to live.”