Richard Lloyd Parry and Kyoko Onoki
Ichikawa, Tokyo

Japanese police were engaged on a murder manhunt last night after the naked corpse of a young British woman was found in a Tokyo flat buried in an sand-filled bathtub.

The severely beaten body of Lindsay Hawker, a 22-year old English conversation teacher from Coventry, West Midlands, will undergo an autopsy today after being found late on Monday night in Chiba prefecture in the suburbs of Tokyo. Police are hunting for the occupant of the apartment, a 28-year old Japanese man named Tatsuya Ichihashi, who fled barefoot from the scene when police called in search of the missing woman.

(If you have infromation about the case, ring The Times Tokyo Bureau on 03-3270-3480/1 or email richardlloydparry@compuserve.com. Information treated in confidence.)