A psycho health worker who derives joy by pushing elderly women off balconies to their death and robbing them of their belongings has finally been apprehended.
Hayato Imai
A heartless nursing home worker in Japan is suspected of killing three elderly residents by throwing them from balconies at various times over the last two years.
Hayato Imai, 23, confessed to the killings after he was arrested for allegedly hurling an 87-year-old resident to his death.
Police detained him yesterday on suspicion of killing Tamio Ushizawa at the nursing home in Kawasaki southwest of Tokyo in November 2014, according to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department.
According to police records, the victim died of ruptured organs after allegedly being pushed by Imai from the fourth-floor balcony, the spokesman said, adding that his motive was not yet known.
He admitted killing two more residents in their 80s and 90s in similar circumstances in 2014, the Asahi Shimbun daily and other local media reported.
'I did it to kill him,' Imai was quoted as telling police about the death of Ushizawa, Kyodo News reported.
Imai was fired last year after being arrested on suspicion of stealing cash and jewellery from the room of a female resident at the facility.
The elderly are traditionally respected in Japan and there is even a national holiday reserved for honouring senior citizens.