Father’s plea over sentence

THE father of a British teacher strangled and raped in Japan has appealed for her killer to be given the stiffest sentence possible.

Lindsay Hawker, 22, was found dead at Tatsuya Ichihashi’s apartment in Ichikawa City, east of Tokyo, in March 2007.

Ichihashi, 32, this week admitted raping and strangling the English language teacher but said he did not intend to kill her.