A BOOK written by the Japanese man who raped and killed young teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker is to be made into a movie, the producer said.

A JAPANESE man accused of raping and murdering British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, whose battered body was found in a sand-filled bathtub, has admitted the killing, but said it was accidental.

Japanese police today added fresh charges of rape and murder against the suspect in the murder of a British language teacher whose body was found in a sand-filled bathtub more than two years ago.

Police in Japan released footage of a man who is wanted in connection with the death of a British woman after failing to make any headway in the case.

British language teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, whose naked body was found in a sand-filled bath in a Japanese apartment, was beaten and then suffocated to death, police said today.