新たに不動産業の男逮捕　６人目、一緒に空き家訪問か―那須２遺体事件・警視庁

　栃木県那須町の河川敷で会社役員夫妻の遺体が見つかった事件で、警視庁と栃木県警の合同捜査本部は７日、死体損壊容疑で、夫妻の知人の不動産会社役員、前田亮容疑者（３６）＝千葉県船橋市前原西＝を新たに逮捕した。事件を巡る逮捕者は６人目。
　捜査本部は夫妻の長女の内縁の夫で会社役員関根誠端容疑者（３２）が事件を首謀し、前田容疑者らに協力を依頼したとみて全容解明を急ぐ。
　逮捕容疑は他の５人と共謀し、４月１６日未明から朝までの間、那須町内の河川敷で、宝島龍太郎さん（５５）と幸子さん（５６）夫妻の遺体を焼き、損壊した疑い。
　捜査本部によると、宝島さん夫妻は同１５日夜、東京都台東区上野で前田容疑者と歩く姿が防犯カメラに映っていた。その後、物件の下見のため、同容疑者が借りたレンタカーで関根容疑者を含めた４人で品川区東品川を訪問。同日午後１１時半ごろにはレンタカーで、前田容疑者が管理する同区内の空き家に４人で向かう様子が確認された。
　夫妻はその後、空き家で実行役の疑いがある職業不詳の姜光紀（２０）、元俳優の若山耀人（２０）両容疑者と接触。暴行などされた上、那須町まで運ばれたとみられ、１６日朝に遺体で発見された。（2024/05/07-10:18）

Japanese police on Tuesday arrested a 36-year-old acquaintance of a Tokyo couple whose bodies were found charred near a river in eastern Japan, making him the sixth person to be arrested over the case.
   A joint investigation team of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department and the Tochigi prefectural police department arrested Ryo Maeda for allegedly damaging the bodies of Ryutaro Takarajima, a 55-year-old company executive, and his wife, Sachiko, 56.
   According to sources close to the investigation, Maeda, who works in the real estate business, is believed to have conspired with Seiha Sekine, who is the 32-year-old common-law husband of the couple's first daughter, 28-year-old Hikaru Sasaki, 25-year-old construction worker Ryoken Hirayama, former actor Kirato Wakayama, 20, and a 20-year-old South Korean man to torch the bodies of the couple on April 16 in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.
   Sekine, Sasaki, Hirayama, Wakayama and the South Korean national have all been arrested for allegedly damaging the bodies.
   Police believe that Sekine orchestrated the entire affair, asking Maeda and others for their cooperation.