Daughter arrested for killing 83-year-old mother with kettle

AICHI — Police in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, said Monday they have arrested a 55-year-old woman for fatally beating her 83-year-old mother with a kettle at their home. According to police, the suspect, identified as Nobuko Inagaki, repeatedly beat her mother on the head with a filled metal water kettle in the heat of an argument at around 10 a.m. on Sunday. Inagaki’s mother Yuri was taken to hospital where she died six hours after the attack, police said. Police quoted Inagaki as saying she had become enraged during a dispute and come up behind her mother and struck her violently on the head.

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