A Yorkshire judge declined to prosecute Yoshika Yasutake, 55, her brother Takahiro Yasutake, 49, and their elderly mother Michiko Yasutake, 78, after they were discovered to have kept the body of a third sibling, Rina, (below) in their house for six weeks after she died in September 2018, aged 49. Police had visited the family’s house in Helmsley, North Yorkshire, after being alerted by a local pharmacist who was suspicious of Yoshika and Takahiro buying “excessive quantities” of surgical spirit and also because they “smelled of
