**The only suspect in the murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker has been arrested by police in Japan, the Foreign Office has confirmed.**Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, is being held in police custody in Osaka.
Miss Hawker, 22, from Brandon, near Coventry, was found buried in a sand-filled bath at the suspect’s Tokyo flat in March 2007.
Earlier Mr Ichihashi’s mother had appeared on television urging her son to turn himself in to police.
Mr Ichihashi is thought to have recently had plastic surgery to change his appearance.
“We have detained a person in Osaka city who appears to be the suspect in the murder,” a spokesman for the Osaka Prefectural Police said.