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Tokushima: Handyman called to change lightbulb finds corpse
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on January 1, 2021
TOKUSHIMA (TR) – Tokushima Prefectural Police have sent a woman to prosecutors after the corpse of her son was found at their residence in Tokushima City, reports the
Tokushima Shimbun (Dec. 30).
At around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, a handyman visiting the residence to replace a lightbulb found the body of her 26-year-old son atop a futon in the kitchen.
“Even though I knew he died, I left [his body] as is,” the woman, 50, later told the Tokushima Meisei Police Station.
According to police, the results of an autopsy indicated that the son died due to illness.