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Nicola Furlong: Dad lands in Tokyo looking for answers
By Independent.ie reporters
Friday June 08 2012
MURDERED student Nicola Furlong’s dad has begun an agonising quest in Japan, to get answers as to what happened to his daughter.
Andrew Furlong (42) arrived in Tokyo today with Nicola’s uncle Denis Corrigan to speak to Japanese police investigating the circumstances surrounding DCU student Nicola’s death in a Tokyo hotel on May 24th.
As soon as they landed they went straight to a meeting with police investigating the alleged indecent assault of Nicola’s friend.
Two Americans – dancer James Blackston (23) and an unnamed 19-year-old musician – are in custody charged with the attack.
They are being held at a daiyo kangoku, a substitute prison, situated in a Tokyo police station and it is understood that one or both may be charged in relation to Nicola’s death by strangulation in the next week.
They can be held for up to eight days more before charges have to be brought under Japanese law.
Speaking to reporters at Dublin airport before they departed, devastated Andrew Furlong said he was about to embark on “the toughest journey of my life”.
“I was never meant to go on this journey. It is a nightmare. My daughters were supposed to bury me, not the other way around.”
Nicola’s dad and uncle were met at the other side by representatives from the Irish embassy in Tokyo.
They travelled at the request of Japanese police who wanted to speak to the Wexford man.
Mr Furlong said that Japanese police had requested to meet with him: “They said they want to talk to me face to face and I hope they have some answers into how Nicola died.”
“We have consulted with senior Gardai and put together a list of questions we want to ask the police there,” Mr Furlong told the Irish Daily Mirror.
It is understood they police are looking for background on Nicola and her trip to Tokyo. The student had been there since last September and was in daily contact with her family.
The police station where Mr Fulong is talking to police in Tokyo, is the nearest one to Keio Plaza Hotel where the body of the languages and business student was discovered.
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