Student’s family travel to Tokyo for preliminary murder hearing

The family of murdered student Nicola Furlong will attend a preliminary hearing into her murder today in Japan.

A 19-year-old American Christian musician, Richard Hinds, is charged with strangling Wexford woman Ms Furlong, 21, in a Tokyo hotel in May but claims he didn’t mean to kill her.

The DCU student’s father Andrew, her mother Angie, and sister Andrea left for the Japanese capital on Tuesday.