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A Japanese teenager strolled into his local police station in Aizu, Wakamatsu City in Fukushima today carrying a severed head in a bag. He then claimed he’d killed his mother.

The boy then led officers to his home, and directed them to a headless body on a futon. He told the police he killed her while she slept, adding “It didn’t matter who I killed.”

According to police spokesperson Hisayoshi Watanabe, the police have not yet determined that the head belongs to the teen’s mother. “If true, it’s horrifying,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki.

The teenager has been arrested and charged with murder. According to the Kyodo news agency, the 17-year-old boy attends a Fukushima high school.

This is the latest incident in a spate of bizarre crimes in Japan involving dismemberment. On Monday, a human leg was found in Tokyo and earlier this year a woman was convicted of cutting up her husband. Last year, an unemployed man cut up his mother and abandoned her body in concrete-filled buckets in the back yard.

Susumu Oda, a criminal psychology expert at Japan’s Tezukayamagakuin University said, “There have been a high number of incidents involving dismembered bodies and I certainly think there is a chain reaction going on.”

David Williams of Dukinfield, Greater Manchester was held by police for 13 hours following a colossal misunderstanding.

Police were responding to a complaint regarding nuisance phone calls Williams had received when one of the officers spotted the six-foot-tall statue of Lara Croft and mistook it for a real, armed gunman.

The officers called for back up, and Williams was held at gunpoint. He was then pinned to the ground, cuffed and interrogated.

“The cops burst in through the back door and knocked me to the ground. One jabbed a gun in the back of my neck and said, ‘Alright, where’s the gun?’,” Williams said. “I said, ‘I don’t have one’ - they weren’t happy and searched the house.

“They must have soon realized what had happened because the PC who called for help was getting a lot of stick.”

Williams, who runs a computer games store, had the limited edition statue near his living room window. While this might explain the police officers’ mistake, Williams said, “I can’t believe the police would be so stupid.”