Raps poised vs 17-year-old girlfriend of slain Japanese

DAVAO CITY — Police are set to file charges against the 17-year-old girlfriend of a Japanese national whose stab-ridden body was found on the bank of the Bingcungan River in Carmen, Davao del Norte last Monday.

The victim, Hayashi Akito, went missing Friday night. He was stabbed seven times.

Police arrested Akito’s girlfriend, nicknamed May-May, Tuesday night in Mati, Davao Oriental where she reportedly fled after the incident.

Earlier that day, three other suspects, identified as Jerry Roncal, 35; Joseph Francis Villegas, 24; and Lovely Bill, 19, were collared. They pointed to May-May as the mastermind, claiming she wanted Akito dead because he allegedly maltreated her.

Akito was allegedly with his girlfriend and the three other suspects before he went missing.

But May-May said her fellow suspects actually robbed Akito and merely tagged her as the mastermind so they could not be held responsible for the killing.

Senior Superintendent Conrado Laza, Davao City police chief, said Akito arrived here Friday afternoon after inspecting the construction of a house he was building for May-May in Panabo, Davao del Sur.

Akito reportedly later met with May-May and the three arrested suspects, and they went to a videoke bar in Barangay Ma-a.

But while inside the bar, Akito reportedly got unruly, prompting the suspects to bring him aboard a Nissan Sentra to the barangay police detachment.

But the Japanese refused to disembark. This allegedly forced May-May to order him killed.

Laza quoted the arrested suspects as saying that Akito was stabbed inside the car and that his body was dumped in the Bingcungan River that same night.