Resentful Japanese man flushes down wife's remains in toilet

TOKYO;

A Japanese man turned himself into
authorities after trying to flush the
ashes of his "hated" wife down a
supermarket toilet ,reports and polce
said Sunday,

The 68 year -old man told police  he
dumped his wife ashes into the toilet
bowl at a Tokyo supermarket immediately
after she was cremated last  month.

Police were alerted after the ashes ,and
 bone frangments including a human chin
,were discovered ,but at a lose to explain
them until the man handed himself in,
the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

He had felt growing resentment  towards
his spouse over the years of their unhappy
marriage according to the daily.

"I had amounting  against her ",the man
whose name was not disclosed  was quoted
as saying ,"Life was such a pain before
she died "His wife died at age of 64 following
an illness,

Prosecutors are now considering whether
to lay charges of abandoning a human body
as ashes can only be scattered in approved
locations a Tokyo police spokesman told
AFP