A man is being made to pay squarely for his dastardly act after he stabbed his own father to death in the open.
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Michikazu Ikeuchi, a 51-year-old Japanese man stabbed his father to death with a chopstick in broad daylight.
AFP reports that the man was however arrested on Thursday after police learned about the incident.
Speaking about crime, Ikeuchi, admitted that he stabbed his 80-year-old father in the throat with a 30-centimetre- (12-inch) long wooden, cooking chopstick on Wednesday night after a quarrel at their home in Osaka, western Japan, according to police.
An Osaka police official who spoke with AFP, said “Ikeuchi told us he had tried to stop his parents from arguing and he did not intend to kill his father,”
“He said in his anger he waved the chopstick in front of his father but before he knew it, it got stuck in him,” the officer said.
Ikeuchi, who lives with his parents and his brother’s family, called emergency services for an ambulance after stabbing his father.