The only suspect in the murder of a 22-year-old British woman in Japan more than two years ago is reported to have undergone plastic surgery, a news report said Wednesday. Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, is wanted in connection with the killing of Lindsay Ann Hawker, an English teacher who was found dead in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of his apartment near Tokyo in March 2007.
Photos of Ichihashi have been plastered on walls in police and train stations across Japan, but police have failed to catch the man who is officially wanted on charges of abandoning a body.
The Asahi daily, quoting unnamed sources involved in the investigation, reported that Ichihashi had visited a hospital in Osaka last month for cosmetic surgery.

Police have examined photographs provided by the hospital and believe their patient was Ichihashi. The wanted man failed to show for a follow-up appointment.