The victim's former husband, an Irish national suspected of the murder, was detained early on Tuesday, Sandor Gal, a senior police official told a press conference.

According to the police, the man reported the fire, and the fire services discovered the 43-year-old Japanese woman's body in the flat. At first, the police did not find criminal evidence and assumed that she had been smoking in bed and caused the fire herself.

Later on, however, analysing new evidence and hearing witnesses, the police came to the conclusion that the suspect could have taken their two young children from the apartment to school early on the morning of her death, returned to the apartment in disguise and killed his wife.


He is believed to have left the apartment, returned again after changing his clothes, and then called the fire services, Gal said.

He added that an autopsy conducted on Monday revealed injuries on the woman's body.

The suspect denies any wrongdoing.

More - in Hungarian -  on police.hu

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

BBJ reports: 

Police Admits Mistakes in Investigation of Murder of Japanese Woman

Police have admitted having made mistakes during the investigation of the murder of a Japanese woman in Budapest, spokespersons of the Budapest (BRFK) and national police headquarters (ORFK) said.

They added that an internal investigation had found five people responsible.

Gergely Fülöp, the head of the communications department of BRFK, said the internal investigation had been launched to establish whether the police made a mistake when they refused to investigate a complaint by the woman in November, who reported that her husband had threatened her life.

As a result of the investigation, disciplinary proceedings are underway against five policemen of Budapest’s District V. A department head was removed from their position, a deputy department head was placed in another post. Fülöp apologized for the mistakes made.

The policeman who responded to Facebook comments on the issue, which Fülöp said were “unworthy” of the situation, was also disciplined and removed from his position.

The chief of the Budapest police has ordered to increase the number of policemen participating in sensitizing training on domestic violence, Fülöp said.

Kristóf Gál, the head of the communications department of ORFK, said the chief of the national police has ordered a review of all rejected complaints of relationship abuse in the past year. Investigations concluded in the absence of a crime or for lack of evidence will also be reviewed, and all ongoing cases will be subjected to expert supervision, he added.

Police reported a week ago that they had launched a murder investigation over an apartment fire in Budapest’s District V, and arrested the ex-husband of the woman found dead at the scene. The fire broke out on January 29, and was reported by the victim’s former husband, an Irish national, ORFK said.

ORFK said they had found no signs of a crime initially, but later acted on the suspicion that the man may have returned to the flat after having taken the children away in the morning and killed his ex-wife before reporting the fire to the emergency services.

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