A lady and her dad and mom have been arrested after a headless physique was found in a resort bathtub in Japan.

The body of Hitoshi Ura was found within the purple mild district of Susukino - identified for its so-called short-stay "love hotels" - within the metropolis of Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido in northern Japan on 2 July.

CCTV reveals Mr Ura, 62, checking in with a lady police imagine to be suspect Runa Tamura, 29.

She and her father, psychiatrist Osamu Tamura, 59, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to behead the sufferer at a resort room and shifting his severed head in the course of the night time.

Her mom, Hiroko Tamura, 60, is alleged to have plotted to move the top to their house.

A resort employee reportedly discovered Mr Ura's headless corpse slumped within the bathtub after going to the room as a result of nobody had formally checked out.

The head stays lacking, police in Hokkaido have mentioned.

Officers raided the suspects' house and are persevering with to research a potential motive for the killing. They have but to substantiate whether or not the sufferer and Runa Tamura are identified to one another.

Local media studies say Mr Ura arrived on the resort with a lady sporting light-coloured clothes and a wide-brimmed hat.

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She left alone three hours later sporting black, in keeping with Kyodo News, with greater than 200 officers deployed to seek for her.

None of the sufferer's belongings had been discovered within the resort room and the mattress was unused.

An post-mortem of the person's physique revealed he was possible beheaded with a chopping software after his loss of life, the web site reported.