Two American men – a high-profile dancer and a teenage musician – have been arrested by police investigating the murder of an Irish student apparently strangled to death in a luxury Tokyo hotel.
Nicola Furlong, 21, was found dead in the early hours of Thursday morning after she attended a Nicki Minaj concert with a female friend, also a 21-year-old Irish student.
Dancer James Blackston, 23, and a 19-year-old male musician, who has not been identified by police, have been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting Ms Furlong’s friend in a taxi on the way to the hotel.
Police are investigating whether the two men plied the two women with alcohol or spiked their drinks before taking them to the Keio Plaza Hotel in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo after the concert.
Ms Furlong was found unconscious in a room after another guest alerted staff to a loud noise. The two men were arrested at the shortly afterwards by officers.
