A Japanese woman has been arrested after a cleaner found her mother’s body in the freezer of her Tokyo apartment.
The body had been tilted in the freezer, police said.
Yumi Yoshino, now 48, said she hid the body ten years ago after returning home and finding her 60-year-old mother dead because she “did not want to leave” her home, local media reported.
There were no visible wounds on the frozen body, police said.
Officials were unable to determine the timing and cause of the woman’s death.
The body was reportedly discovered after Yoshino had been evicted from the apartment for non-payment of rent. Yoshino was arrested Friday at a hotel in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo.