Japanese woman and her parents arrested over man’s beheading in hotel room

Police are still investigating the motive and refused to say if the woman and the victim knew each other.

The man’s body was found in a hotel in Sapporo, northern Japan (Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese police have arrested a woman and her parents over the beheading of a man in the city of Sapporo.

Hokkaido police said they arrested Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, a 59-year-old psychiatrist, on suspicion of conspiring in beheading the victim at a hotel room and relocating his severed head in the middle of the night between July 1 and July 2.