16-year-old Kyoto girl arrested for killing her policeman father with ax

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 14:55 EDT

KYOTO — A 16-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing her father, a police officer, at their home in Kyotanabe, police said.

The girl, a vocational school student, was quoted as telling investigators, "I killed my dad because I did not like him," referring to her 45-year-old father, who was found lying on his bed earlier in the day with gashes to his neck from a hand ax.

The wife of the officer called police at around 4:40 a.m., saying, "My husband killed himself." After police arrived, the girl admitted to killing her father. Police said the girl, covered with blood, was dazed, and was with her mother and 19-year-old sister in the living room.

Her mother and sister were sleeping at the time of the attack, police said.

"He was an excellent officer," Toshiaki Okano, deputy chief of the Minami Police Station, said of the victim. "I have never heard that he had any troubles."

Kyodo