A Japanese woman has been arrested after a cleaner found her mother’s body in the freezer of her apartment in Tokyo.
Police said the body was bent in the freezer.
Yumi Yoshino, now 48, said she hid the body ten years ago after coming home and finding her 60-year-old mother dead because she “did not want to move”, local media reported.
There were no visible wounds to the frozen body, police said.
Officials could not determine the time and cause of the woman’s death.
The body was apparently discovered after Yoshino was evicted from the apartment due to missing rent payments. Yoshino was arrested on Friday in a hotel in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo.