American dancer & musician charged with 'sexually assaulting Irish student before her friend was...

UK Daily Mail ^ | 29 May 2012 | UK Daily Mail Reporter, London and Tokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

Two American men, a high-profile dancer & a teenage musician, have been arrested by Tokyo 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 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, the Independent reported. A spokesperson for Tokyo Metropolitan Police said of the alleged sexual attack on Ms Furlong's friend: 'These two men allegedly took advantage of a female unable to resist due to the fact she was in a comatose state from a highly alcoholic beverage. 'On a taxi ride between Shibuya and Shinjuku they took advantage of a woman by touching her body. As that is an indecent act, they have been charged with quasi forcible indecency.' State Department officials confirmed the arrests. It is believed the 19-year-old, identified by some reports as Larry Perry, was with Ms Furlong when she was found, Kyodo News reported. The death came just hours after the two women, who were both studying in Japan, attended the Nicki Minaj concert in Tokyo, reports claiming that they missed their last train home.

[skinkinthegrass]

"DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE"Well..one could've dreamt. :-P

[struggle]

>>Glad you enjoyed Japan. If you are good to them, the will be more than good to you. But in the case of these two perps, well, let’s just say I would not want to be in their shoes, and the Japanese are probably going to house the in a cell with the tallest, biggest, most mean, muscular, incorrible and prison-homosexual or bi-tendencied yakuza prison inmate you can imagine. Oh wow. Hours and hours of unprotected fun.

Yeah, I’ve had a few chinpira hitmen I knew (from a distance) go to jail and I wouldn’t want to be housed with them.

[wac3rd]

Case in point...ESPN was referencing the Detroit Tigers’ Delvin Young’s court hearing today...aggravated assault...but left out the ‘hate crime’ part.

ESPN does all it can to alter the image of thug athletes.

[1010RD]

I totally concur.

[bkopto]

Here’s a video of the perp, James “King Tight” Blackstone, on a Japanese train, making an absolute fool of himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMxy6FF4Lk

[TheMole]

Highly instructive video ... a picture really is worth a thousand words and all that. As other posters say, the U.S. mainstream media will totally avoid this case, but it is likely to get considerable play in the British media (and of course the Japanese).

[TheMole]

Highly instructive video ... a picture really is worth a thousand words and all that. As other posters say, the U.S. mainstream media will totally avoid this case, but it is likely to get considerable play in the British media (and of course the Japanese).