Police arrested Monday a 48-year-old local assembly member on suspicion of suffocating his wife to death in September last year at their home in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano.Daisuke Maruyama, a second-term member of the Nagano prefectural assembly who belongs to the prefectural chapter of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has denied allegations of murdering his 47-year-old wife, Nozomi, saying he was not at the scene of the crime when the attack is presumed to have occurred, according to an investigative source.Maruyama is suspected of suffocating his wife and killing her at th…READ FULL ARTICLE
