Thursday, August 06, 2009

Updates to Sakai Noriko's disappearance - 6 Aug 09

Sakai Noriko and her son are still missing after her husband Takasou Yuichi was caught for possessing of stimulants. Although the police detected that her handphone was switched on at one time in the evening of 4 August near Mount. Minobu in Yamanashi, there are no signals from her handphone now. This could mean that she has switched off her phone or she is at a place where there are no handphone signals. Sakai's father passed away in a traffic accident in May 1989 at the time when he was residing in Yamanashi. As such, Sakai visits the area often and has some relatives living there.

On the other hand, details of Takasou's arrest and Sakai's appearance at the scene are made known by the police. Takasou was stopped by the police in the early hours of 3 August at Shibuya for regular questioning. However, Takasou was very uncooperative and even called Sakai to come to the scene. Sakai drove to the scene in her car and tried to persuade the police to stop questioning Takasou. She even said that he did not do anything wrong and asked the police not to be too harsh on him. According to witnesses, Sakai was even crying at one point. However, when the police wanted to take Takasou back to the Shibuya Police Station and asked Sakai to come along, she claimed that she needed to make arrangements for someone to take care of her son and left in her car. Soon after that, she talked on the phone with Takasou's mother and subsequently disappeared without a trace. As her car is still parked at home, it is believed that she could have taken a taxi with her son to another place.

It has been 3 days since her disappearance and the police are calling upon the public to provide information if they see Sakai and her son. Flyers containing their information are already distributed to taxi companies and hotels.

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