Police confirmed that the body, believed to be that of a man around 40 years old, was wrapped in a bedsheet

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has claimed that his country’s military actively sought to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the recent Israel-Iran tensions, but failed to identify a viable opportunity.

Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his apartment near Tokyo.