Japan's "Twitter killer", suspected of murdering and chopping up people he lured on social media, and storing their body parts in coolboxes, has been charged with nine counts of murder.
Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, has admitted to killing and butchering all nine of his victims - all but one of whom were women aged between 15 and 26.
On the morning of 31 October last year, police uncovered nine dismembered bodies with as many as 240 bone parts stashed in coolers and tool boxes, sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence in Shiraishi's house.
He is suspected of luring people with suicidal tendencies via Twitter by telling them he could help them in their plans or even die alongside them.
Prosecutors pressed charges after five months of psychiatric examination showed Shiraishi could be held criminally responsible, according to local news agency Jiji Press.
