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| birth_name = Lindsay Ann Hawker
| birth_date = {{birth date|1984|12|30|dfmf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Coventry]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|3|2426|1984|12|30|dfmf=y}}
| death_place = [[Ichikawa, Chiba]], Japan
| death_cause = [[Asphyxia]] due to suffocation
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'''Lindsay Ann Hawker''' (30 December 30, 1984{{spaced ndash}}24 March 26, 2007) was a 22-year-old British teacher who was killedmurdered in Japan in early 2007 by {{nihongo|Tatsuya Ichihashi|市橋 達也|Ichihashi Tatsuya}}, a 28-year-old Japanese man from [[Chiba Prefecture]]. Ichihashi was seen fleeing his apartment,<ref name=InvestigationCrime>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5139609.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20081120070202/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5139609.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 November 2008|title=Bill Hawker: Where is my daughter's killer?|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=16 November 2008|access-date=18 November 2008 | location=London}}</ref> and police sought him for the murder of Hawker and the abandonment of her corpse.
 
JapaneseThe newspolice mediaarrested and [[BBC News]] reportedIchihashi on 10 November 2009 that the police had apprehended Ichihashi.<ref name="mainichi20091110">{{cite web|url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091110p2a00m0na027000c.html |title=Fugitive wanted over 2007 killing of British teacher arrested in Osaka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112104707/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091110p2a00m0na027000c.html |archive-date=12 November 2009 }}</ref><ref name="xinhuanet">{{cite news |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/10/content_12426654.htm |title=Suspected killer of British woman detained in Japan |work=chinaview.cn |access-date=10 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113091658/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/10/content_12426654.htm |archive-date=13 November 2009 }}</ref> On 5 July 2011, Ichihashi confessed to killing Hawker, stating that he [[smother]]ed her to prevent her from screaming while he [[rape]]d her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110705-0000219/Japanese-man-admits-to-raping,-strangling-British-teacher-in-2007 |title=Comprehensive local and international news and analysis |publisher=TODAYonline |access-date=9 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612051827/http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110705-0000219/Japanese-man-admits-to-raping%2C-strangling-British-teacher-in-2007 |archive-date=12 June 2012 }}</ref> He was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] on 21 July 2011.<ref name="edition.cnn.com">{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/japan.uk.student.trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 | work=CNN | title=Japanese man guilty of killing British teacher; receives life sentence | date=21 July 2011 | access-date=21 July 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025050736/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/japan.uk.student.trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 | archive-date=25 October 2012 | url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Background==
===Lindsay Hawker===
Lindsay Hawker was born to Bill and Julia Hawker, who lived in [[Coventry]], England.; Hawker'sher family came from the nearby village of [[Brandon, Warwickshire|Brandon]], a village outside Coventry[[Warwickshire]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/7305414.stm|title='We want to help Lindsay to rest'|work=BBC News|author=Chris Hogg|date=21 March 2008|access-date=21 November 2008|archive-date=21 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121231742/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7305414.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> She was schooled at [[King Henry VIII School, Coventry]], and studied biology at the [[University of Leeds]], wherewhen she achieved a [[First Class Honours|first-class honours]] degree, graduating in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641258049 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711215125/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641258049 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 July 2012 |title=School Tribute To Murdered Lindsay |date=28 March 2007 |first=George |last=Fisher |publisher=[[Sky News]]}}</ref> Although she planned to pursue a [[Master's degree]], she taught English for a year in Japan starting in October 2006 at the Koiwa, [[Tokyo]], branch of [[Nova (eikaiwa)|Nova]] {{mdash}} then Japan's largest private English conversation school.<ref name=ProfileHawker>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6502219.stm |title=Profile: Lindsay Ann Hawker |work=BBC News |date=28 March 2007 |access-date=29 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410065724/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6502219.stm |archive-date=10 April 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Hawker shared her accommodation with two other foreign female teachers.<ref name=Timesreport>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1577421.ece|title=Briton's body buried in bath of sand|newspaper=The Times|date=28 March 2007|access-date=21 November 2008|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203110526/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1577421.ece|archive-date=3 December 2008|url-status=livedead}}</ref> On the day she disappeared, her family became distressed because of her lack of contact; she had used e-mail, [[Skype]], and telephone calls to maintain frequent contact with her family.<ref name=InvestigationCrime/>
 
===Tatsuya Ichihashi===
{{Infobox criminal
{{nihongo|Tatsuya Ichihashi|市橋 達也|Ichihashi Tatsuya}} was born in [[Gifu Prefecture]] on 5 January 1979. He grew up in Gifu as well as in [[Chiba Prefecture]], which is just east of Tokyo. His mother is a dentist and his father is a pyscoli doctor. After graduating from the Department of Horticulture at [[Chiba University]] in 2005, Ichihashi did not work and lived on a monthly allowance of about {{JPY|100,000|link=yes}} {{mdash}} around {{GBP|600|link=yes}} or [[United States dollar|$]]760 at that time {{mdash}} from his parents. Ichihashi was 28 years old at the time of the murder, and lived in the city of [[Ichikawa, Chiba|Ichikawa]] in Chiba.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}▼
| name = Tatsuya Ichihashi
| native_name_lang = ja
| native_name = 市橋達也
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1979|01|05}}<br>
[[Gifu Prefecture]], [[Japan]]
| criminal_charge = [[Murder]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>
| criminal_penalty = [[Life imprisonment in Japan|Life imprisonment]]
| criminal_status = [[Incarcerated]]
| victims = Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22
| date = 26 March 2007
}}
 
▲{{nihongo|Tatsuya Ichihashi|市橋 達也|Ichihashi Tatsuya}} was born in [[Gifu Prefecture]] on 5 January 1979. He grew up in Gifu as well as in [[Chiba Prefecture]], which is just east of Tokyo. His mother is a dentist and his father is a pyscolimedical doctor. After graduating from the Department of Horticulture at [[Chiba University]] in 2005, Ichihashi did not work and lived on a monthly allowance of about {{JPY|100,000|link=yes}} {{mdash}} around {{GBP|600|link=yes}} or [[United States dollar|$]]760 at that time {{mdash}} from his parents. Ichihashi was 28 years old at the time of the murder, and lived in the city of [[Ichikawa, Chiba|Ichikawa]] in Chiba.<ref>{{citationCite web needed|date=October2007-03-28 2013|title=浴槽に英国女性遺体 逃走男遺棄で指名手配 |trans-title=Body of British woman found in bathtub; man who ran away wanted for abandonment of body |url=http://www.chibanippo.co.jp/news/shakai/index_b.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329041206/http://www.chibanippo.co.jp/news/shakai/index_b.php |archive-date=2007-03-29 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=[[Chiba Nippo]] |language=ja}}</ref>
 
Ichihashi had no previous convictions, but he had been the subject of an allegation of "theft and injury" six years before Hawker's death. He had allegedly [[assault]]ed a man on the street during a [[robbery]], but the matter had been settled out of court. Ichihashi had been in a stable, year-long relationship with a Japanese woman at the time of Hawker's killing.<ref name=InvestigationCrime/> Police described him as a loner with an obsession for physical fitness; he regularly attended a gym and cycled 25 kilometres a day.,<ref name=InvestigationCrime/> He also had an interest in violent [[manga]], which some reporters linked to the case.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelondonpaper.com/manuallyreassign/lindsay-bound-with-cords-and-strangled |title=Lindsay bound with cords and strangled |author=Eugene Henderson |year=2007 |access-date=23 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117112749/http://www.thelondonpaper.com/manuallyreassign/lindsay-bound-with-cords-and-strangled |archive-date=17 January 2010 }}</ref>
 
===Meeting===
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</ref> Hawker's head was shaved after she was killed.<ref name=InvestigationCrime/> Her possessions were found strewn across the room.<ref name=sky>{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1257881,00.html |title='A Wonderful Person' |publisher=Sky News |date=28 March 2007 |access-date=30 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515040153/http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0%2C%2C30000-1257881%2C00.html |archive-date=15 May 2007 }}</ref>
 
Media had reported in the days after Hawker's death that Ichihashi had buried her in sand, but he actually buried the body in a mixture of sand and compost soil, then sprayed it with a substance used to compact and [[decomposition|decompose]] waste. It is believed that he planned to either bury the body in concrete or to wait until it had decomposed.<ref name=InvestigationCrime/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/03/28/wjapan28.xml|title=Murder Briton found buried in bath of sand|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|author=Nick Britten and Colin Joyce|date=28 March 2007|access-date=21 November 2008|location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711163901/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatresources/4203420/Murder-Briton-found-buried-in-bath-of-sand.html
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==Investigation==
Police suspect that between Sunday night and early Monday morning, Ichihashi had moved his bathtub from the bathroom to the balcony and put Hawker's body into it. Neighbours said they heard sounds of something striking metal and something being dragged during that time. On Tuesday, the police obtained an [[arrest warrant]] for Ichihashi on suspicion of abandoning Hawker's body; they put him on the nationwide wanted list.<ref name=japantimes>{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070329a1.html |title=Briton's suspected murderer on run; father pleads for help |newspaper=The Japan Times |date=29 March 2007 |access-date=29 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102804/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070329a1.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 29 March, detectives removed a shopping trolley, in which Ichihashi is believed to have transported the bags of horticultural soil he used to bury Hawker, from his apartment building.<ref name=timesblog/> That same day, twenty police officers raided Hotel Chateau {{mdash}} a [[love hotel]] near [[Nishi-Funabashi Station]] east of Tokyo {{mdash}} but did not find Ichihashi.<ref name=timesblog/> Police released a new wanted poster of Ichihashi, which included an enhanced image of the suspect disguised as a woman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431056 |title=New wanted posters of Hawker's suspected murderer in various disguises released |access-date=28 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317191147/http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431056 |archive-date=17 March 2008 }}</ref> They also released images of the drawing he had made of Hawker, hoping that someone would recognize the drawing style.
 
In early 2008, police investigated sightings of Ichihashi among sections of [[Kabukichō, Tokyo|Kabukicho]] popular with [[homosexual]]s, where he had tentatively been identified by his male sexual partners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/shukan-post/view/ichihashi-reportedly-seen-in-tokyos-gay-area |title=Ichihashi reportedly seen in Tokyo's gay area ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion |access-date=24 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908054938/http://www.japantoday.com/category/shukan-post/view/ichihashi-reportedly-seen-in-tokyos-gay-area |archive-date=8 September 2012 }} Ichihashi reportedly seen in Tokyo's gay area.</ref> However, in the latter part of the year, the investigation stalled. By October 2008, 140 officers were involved in the relatively large investigation. That month, the police suggested that Ichihashi may have committed [[suicide]]. Hawker's father called this a ploy to scale down the operation, which some inside sources said was coming to a close. Japanese police told neither the Hawker family nor the British [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3248564/Murdered-Lindsay-Hawkers-killer-may-have-committed-suicide-Japanese-police-fear.html |title=Murdered Lindsay Hawker's killer may have committed suicide, Japanese police fear |newspaper=The Telegraph |author=John Bingham |date=23 October 2008 |access-date=23 December 2009 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027203850/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3248564/Murdered-Lindsay-Hawkers-killer-may-have-committed-suicide-Japanese-police-fear.html |archive-date=27 October 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Reports speculating about Ichihashi's location continued, and on 15 January 2009 an article in ''[[Japan Today]]'', citing a reporter from the weekly magazine ''Spa!'', reported that Ichihashi had fled to the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Japan Today|date=15 January 2009|access-date=15 January 2009|title=Fugitive Ichihashi may be in Philippines|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/fugitive-ichihashi-may-be-in-philippines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925013858/http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/fugitive-ichihashi-may-be-in-philippines|archive-date=25 September 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> On 21 March 2009, on the run-up to the second anniversary of Hawker's death, the police released life-size cut-outs of Ichihashi to raise the profile of the case.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/10/lindsay-hawker-timeline|title=Timeline: Lindsay Hawker's murder|author=Justin McCurry|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 November 2009|access-date=24 December 2009|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908074615/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/10/lindsay-hawker-timeline|archive-date=8 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 26 June 2009, the [[National Police Agency (Japan)|Japanese National Police Agency]] raised the cash reward for information leading to Ichihashi's arrest from {{JPY|1 million}}{{nbsp}}million to {{JPY|10 million}}{{nbsp}}million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090626a3.html|title=Ichihashi bounty at ¥10 million|work=The Japan Times|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607063447/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090626a3.html|archive-date=7 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> The manner in which this reward would be distributed was questioned when Ichihashi was arrested later that year; several informants {{mdash}} including a [[cosmetic surgery]] clinic in Nagoya, an employee at an [[Osaka]] construction company where Ichihashi worked for fourteen months and an Osaka ferry company employee who reported sighting someone who resembled Ichihashi {{mdash}} contributed to his capture.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/dividing-up-ichihashi-reward-money-worthy-of-its-own-investigation|title=Dividing up Ichihashi reward money worthy of its own investigation|newspaper=Japan Today|date=12 November 2009|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912170450/http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/dividing-up-ichihashi-reward-money-worthy-of-its-own-investigation|archive-date=12 September 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 4 November 2009, police disclosed that Ichihashi had undergone plastic surgery on 24 October at a clinic in Nagoya, where he had his [[nose job|nose uplifted]]. He had failed to receive surgery in [[Fukuoka]] in mid-October.<ref name="mainichi20091106">{{cite news|publisher=The Mainichi Daily News |date=6 November 2009 |access-date=9 November 2009 |title=Police release new photo of man wanted over killing of British woman |url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091106p2a00m0na005000c.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109023427/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091106p2a00m0na005000c.html |archive-date=9 November 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=The Mainichi Daily News |date=9 November 2009 |access-date=10 November 2009 |title=Man wanted over Briton's murder was in Osaka, Fukuoka |url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091110p2a00m0na027000c.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113014230/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091110p2a00m0na027000c.html |archive-date=13 November 2009 }}</ref> He had apparently received cosmetic surgery on several occasions to remove two moles on his cheek, add a fold to his eyelids, thin both lips and increase the height of his nose before he visited the Nagoya clinic.<ref name="mainichi20091106"/> Police released to the press a photograph taken immediately before his latest surgery.<ref name="mainichi20091106"/>
 
===Arrest and trial===
On 10 November 2009, Ichihashi was captured in Osaka while trying to board a ferry to [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].<ref name="mainichi20091110"/><ref name="xinhuanet"/> Ichihashi did not confess upon being arrested, and when his 23-day period of detention without charge expired on 2 December,<ref name=JT1>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/ichihashi-admits-hawker-died-in-his-apartment |archive-url=https://archive.today/20091223213544/http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/ichihashi-admits-hawker-died-in-his-apartment |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2009 |title=Ichihashi says he didn't mean to kill Hawker and that he tried artificial resuscitation |newspaper=Japan Today |date=23 December 2009 |access-date=23 December 2009 }}</ref> he was initially charged with abandoning a body,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/witness-sees-through-accused-strangler-tatsuya-ichihashis-plastic-surgery/story-e6frg6so-1225796339488|title=The Australian: Witness sees through accused strangler Tatsuya Ichihashi's plastic surgery|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315232155/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/witness-sees-through-accused-strangler-tatsuya-ichihashis-plastic-surgery/story-e6frg6so-1225796339488|archive-date=15 March 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and served two more warrants for rape and murder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091203a3.html|title=The Japan Times: Ichihashi gets warrant for Hawker rape-murder|work=The Japan Times|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607061450/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091203a3.html|archive-date=7 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Green>Green, Stephen, "[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20091208zg.html Ichihashi trial key test of legal reforms: Extensive media coverage could sway lay judges] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211065836/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20091208zg.html |date=11 December 2009 }}", ''[[Military Times]]'', 8 December 2009, p. 12.</ref> Ichihashi's lawyers alleged that he was threatened with the [[death penalty]] if he did not speak,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/without-a-confession-justice-stalls-for-lindsay-20091204-kb3q.html|title=Without a confession, justice stalls for Lindsay|author=Robin Powell|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=5 December 2009|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208222929/http://www.smh.com.au/world/without-a-confession-justice-stalls-for-lindsay-20091204-kb3q.html|archive-date=8 December 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> and his reticence was attributed to [[fatigue (medical)|fatigue]] and stress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/asia-pacific/lindsay-ann-hawker-s-father-returns-to-japan-$1346302.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330005400/http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/asia-pacific/lindsay-ann-hawker-s-father-returns-to-japan-%241346302.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2012 |title=Lindsay Ann Hawker's father returns to Japan |author=Alex Plough |publisher=In the News |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=24 December 2009 }}</ref> On 23 December, one of his lawyers announced that he had acknowledged that he was involved in Hawker's death but he had not intended to kill her and had attempted artificial resuscitation.<ref name=JT1/>
 
Stephen Green, writing for ''[[The Japan Times]]'', said that the case, which had been extensively covered by the media, was likely to test the fairness of Japan's judicial system {{mdash}} which operates a lay judge system and has the option of the death penalty in certain cases.<ref name=Green/> However, it is extremely rare in Japan to be sentenced to death for killing only one person. {{As of|2010}}, fewer than ten of the 111 inmates of Japan's [[death row]] had killed only one person, including previous convictions.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203337/http://www.jiadep.org/Sentenced_to_Death_files/page345_1.html "" ""]</ref>
 
In court, Ichihashi admitted to [[suffocation|suffocating]] Hawker to prevent her from screaming for help while he raped her. On 21 July 2011, the Chiba District Court sentenced Ichihashi to life imprisonment for the murder of Hawker.<ref name="edition.cnn.com" /> The Hawker family had requested the death penalty, but the court felt the death penalty was inappropriate because Ichihashi had no previous convictions and because at the age of 32 there was still a chance he could be rehabilitated.<ref name="edition.cnn.com" /><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14226859 | work=BBC News | title=Lindsay Hawker's killer Tatsuya Ichihashi jailed for life | date=21 July 2011 | access-date=20 June 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024093905/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14226859 | archive-date=24 October 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
 
As of 2023, Ichihashi is serving his sentence in {{Interlanguage link|Nagano Prison|ja|長野刑務所}} according to an article on the ''[[Shukan Shincho|Daily Shincho]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Yusuke |first=Aoyagi |date=2023-07-01 |title=リンゼイさん事件「市橋達也」獄中の日々　元受刑者が明かす“ファンから多額の差し入れ”に“運動会では大声援” |url=https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2023/07011103/?all=1&page=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702092506/https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2023/07011103/?all=1&page=2 |archive-date=2023-07-02 |access-date=2024-03-25 |newspaper=Daily Shincho |publisher=Shincho-sha |page=2 |language=ja}}</ref>
 
==Media coverage==
During the investigation, Hawker's parents strove to keep their daughter's case on the media agenda. They appealed for information shortly after the murder,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1041855 |title=Tearful plea in Tokyo body case |publisher=TVNZ |agency=Reuters |date=29 March 2007 |access-date=23 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006214844/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1041855 |archive-date=6 October 2012 }}</ref> visited Japan three months later to renew attention,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKT6509220070630|work=Reuters|title=Slain Briton's family make TV appeal in Japan|date=29 June 2007|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-date=21 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121231739/https://www.reuters.com/?edition-redirect=uk|url-status=livedead}}</ref> and visited again a year after her death, imploring the media to keep the case alive and for Ichihashi to turn himself in. Although Bill Hawker expressed dismay at the lack of information about Ichihashi's whereabouts, he said "we have not come here to criticize the Japanese police".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080325a2.html|title=Hawker's kin in Japan to prod manhunt|newspaper=The Japan Times|author=Jun Hungo|date=25 March 2008|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607063130/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080325a2.html|archive-date=7 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Hawker's family returned again on the second anniversary of her death, and her father revisited the country a month after Ichihashi's arrest to express his gratitude.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7958410.stm| title=Murdered Briton's family in Japan| work=BBC News| date=23 March 2009| access-date=23 March 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326074042/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7958410.stm| archive-date=26 March 2009| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091211a6.html |title=Hawker's dad visits, thanks public |work=The Japan Times |date=11 December 2009 |access-date=23 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607063054/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091211a6.html |archive-date=7 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Hawker's murder was repeatedly compared to the 2000 murder of British citizen [[Lucie Blackman]], whose dismembered body was found buried in a shallow grave at a beach in [[Miura, Kanagawa|Miura]], [[Kanagawa]] in January 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7305414.stm |title=We want to help Lindsay to rest |author=Hogg C |work=BBC News |date=21 March 2008 |location=UK |access-date=27 October 2008 |quote=The case shocked people here in Japan. It reminded people of the murder of another young British woman, Lucie Blackman, a few years earlier. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325002748/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7305414.stm |archive-date=25 March 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 29 February 2008, [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] aired a US documentary titled ''Vanished in Japan'' related to the deaths of Hawker and Blackman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/ABC-News-20-Vanished-Japan/dp/B001E0TWYU|title=ABC News 20/20 Vanished in Japan|website=www.amazon.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908014124/http://www.amazon.com/ABC-News-20-Vanished-Japan/dp/B001E0TWYU|archive-date=8 September 2008|url-status=live|access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Richard Straton|title=20/20 ABC Vanished Missing in Japan|date=22 May 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFb6f7Ehpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619131712/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFb6f7Ehpg |archive-date=19 June 2020 |url-status=dead|access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref> In September 2008, [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast ''A Tokyo Murder'' by John Dryden and Miriam Smith, a three-part radio play which is loosely based on the Hawker case.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news |title= Japanese men are no 'peril' |first= Jenny |last= Holt |url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/13/lindsay-hawker-japanese-men |newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |date= 13 November 2009 |access-date= 23 December 2008 |location= London |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130908060733/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/13/lindsay-hawker-japanese-men |archive-date= 8 September 2013 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=BBC>{{cite web |title=Afternoon Play: A Tokyo Murder |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dghmq |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=23 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120015950/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dghmq |archive-date=20 January 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Ichihashi wrote a book titled ''Until I Was Arrested'', which tells his side of the story.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ichihashi |first=Tatsuya |title=逮捕されるまで : 空白の2年7カ月の記錄 |publisher=[[Gentōsha]] |year=2011 |isbn=9784344019416 |location=Tokyo |language=ja |oclc=763016153}}</ref><ref name="news.sky.com">{{cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Video---Lindsay-Ann-Hawker-Murder-Tatsuya-Ichihashi-Gets-Life-Sentence-For-Killing-British-Teacher/Article/201107316034558?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_16034558_Video_-_Lindsay_Ann_Hawker_Murder%3A_Tatsuya_Ichihashi_Gets_Life_Sentence_For_Killing_British_Teacher |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202180833/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Video---Lindsay-Ann-Hawker-Murder-Tatsuya-Ichihashi-Gets-Life-Sentence-For-Killing-British-Teacher/Article/201107316034558?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_16034558_Video_-_Lindsay_Ann_Hawker_Murder:_Tatsuya_Ichihashi_Gets_Life_Sentence_For_Killing_British_Teacher |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2013 |title=Lindsay Hawker Killer Jailed For Life |publisher=Sky News |date=21 July 2011 |access-date=31 October 2013 }}</ref> He offered Hawker's family all royalties his book might earn, which the family rejected.<ref name="news.sky.com"/> A film, ''[[I Am Ichihashi: Journal of a Murderer]]'', starring Japanese actor [[Dean Fujioka]], was released in November 2013, based on the book by Ichihashi, and covering the two and a half years he spent on the run before being arrested in November 2009.<ref name="jt20131103">{{cite news|last= Hongo|first= Jun|date= 3 November 2013|title= Portrait of a killer|newspaper= The Japan Times on Sunday|location= Japan|publisher= The Japan Times Ltd.|page= 15|url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/portrait-of-a-killer/#.Unb_TRCJmfM|access-date= 4 November 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131104105907/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/portrait-of-a-killer/#.Unb_TRCJmfM|archive-date= 4 November 2013|url-status= live}}</ref>
 
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