London - A Japanese man who hated his dead wife tried to flush her ashes down a toilet in a supermarket, local police said on Sunday.
Officers were baffled after ashes and human bone fragments, including a chin, were discovered in the toilet bowl at the store in Tokyo.
But the 68-year-old man turned himself in to police and revealed he dumped his spouse’s remains there immediately after she was cremated last month.
He had been unhappy in his marriage and felt growing resentment towards his wife, a Japanese newspaper reported.
The man, who has not been named, said: “I had hatred mounting against her. Life was such a pain before she died.”
His wife died at the age of 64 after an illness.
A Tokyo police spokesman said prosecutors are considering whether to charge him with abandoning a human body, as ashes can only be scattered in approved locations.
Daily Mail