Japan teacher uses key copied five years ago to sneak into home of ex-pupil

A Japanese school teacher has been arrested after he broke into the home of an ex-pupil with the intention of stealing her school uniform. - Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/YouTube

SHANGHAI (SCMP): A schoolteacher in Japan has been arrested for breaking into the home of a teenage girl using a key he copied five years ago to steal her school uniform.

At the end of May, Tokyo primary school teacher Masashi Mizuno, 39, entered the home of a secondary school girl who was his student five years previously.