Click on Image for original story: Potter pinched for burning body
2005.02.18


FUKUOKA -- An elderly potter who burned the body of a woman in his kiln after his friend forced him at gunpoint to carry out the grisly crime has been arrested, police said.
Potter Koichi Shimoyama, 61, from Kanada, has been accused of abandoning a body.

"I burned the body because my friend threatened me with a gun," officers quoted Shimoyama as saying. "I didn't know whose body it was."


Lee Love