夫妻殺害容疑で２人目再逮捕　首謀者から依頼され指示伝達か―佐々木容疑者・那須２遺体

　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１９日、殺人容疑で職業不詳佐々木光容疑者（２８）＝死体損壊容疑で逮捕＝を再逮捕した。殺人容疑での立件は２人目。
　捜査本部は、同容疑者が首謀者から夫妻殺害の実行役を探すよう頼まれ、指示の伝達や報酬の受け渡しなどに関与したとみて調べている。
　再逮捕容疑は４月１５日午後１１時５０分～１６日午前１時半ごろ、東京都品川区東五反田にある空き家の１階ガレージで、首を絞めるなどして会社役員宝島龍太郎さん（５５）と妻幸子さん（５６）を殺害した疑い。
　捜査本部はこれまでに佐々木容疑者と、夫妻の長女の内縁の夫で、事件を首謀した疑いのある会社役員関根誠端容疑者（３２）＝死体損壊容疑で逮捕＝や、建設業平山綾拳容疑者（２５）＝殺人容疑で再逮捕＝ら計６人を逮捕した。関根容疑者から夫妻殺害や遺体処理の実行役を探すよう依頼された佐々木容疑者が、平山容疑者に事件を持ち掛けたとみられている。（2024/05/19-12:20）

Japanese police on Sunday served a fresh arrest warrant to Hikaru Sasaki, one of the six people held over the case of the bodies of a Tokyo man and his wife being found in April, on suspicion of murdering the couple.
   Sasaki is the second person arrested for alleged murder of corporate executive Ryutaro Takarajima, 55, and his wife, Sachiko, 56. Earlier, Sasaki, whose occupation is unknown, was arrested for allegedly damaging the bodies of the couple.
   A joint investigation team of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department and the police department of Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, suspects that Sasaki was asked by a mastermind of the high-profile crime to find a person to carry out the murder and was involved in tasks such as conveying related information and providing reward money.
   Sasaki allegedly killed the Takarajimas, including by squeezing their throats, at a garage on the first floor of an unoccupied house in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward between around 11:50 p.m. on April 15 and 1:30 a.m. the following day, according to investigative sources. The couple's bodies were found near a river in the town of Nasu in Tochigi on the morning of April 16.
   The six people who have been arrested over the case also include corporate executive Seiha Sekine, 32, the suspected mastermind and common-law husband of the couple's first daughter, and construction worker Ryoken Hirayama, 25.