Irish woman found dead; 2 U.S. men held
Jiji-Daily Yomiuri
(May. 27, 2012)
An Irish woman has been found dead in a Tokyo hotel, and police Saturday arrested two American men on suspicion of sexually assaulting another woman who was her friend.
Police are questioning the men, whom they suspect know how the Irish woman died.
Around 3:20 a.m. on Thursday, a hotel employee found the woman lying dead in a hotel in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. She was identified as Nicola Furlong, 21, a student at Takasaki City University of Economics in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture.
There were signs she might have been strangled.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested two male American suspects--a musician, 19, and a dancer, 23--on suspicion of sexually assaulting Furlong's friend and fellow student, 21.
The two are suspected of touching the lower part of the drunken woman's body in a taxi headed for the hotel around 1 a.m. Thursday. They denied the charge and said they knew nothing about Furlong's death, the MPD said.
