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Message: [QUOTE="thomas, post: 9442, member: 1"] :snore: [B]Man beats live-in lover for snoring[/B] [font=Arial]An unemployed man who punched and injured his live-in partner because she "snored loudly" was arrested Thursday, police said. Mitsuji Furukawa, from Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, has admitted that he struck his partner but denied causing her injury. "I punched her because her snoring was more than I could bear," Koriyama Police Station officers quoted Furukawa, 53, as saying. "But I have never injured her." The officers allege that the unnamed woman, 53, had bones in her arm broken from Furukawa's repeated attacks between Dec. 24 and Jan. 15. When the woman saw a doctor to have her arm and chest examined, she claimed to have sustained the injuries in a fall. But the doctor suspected foul play after an X-ray examination found new fractures in a bone that had healed from a previous break, and alerted the police. Furukawa began living with the woman sometime around the summer of 2000, and began his violent attacks in late December, often punching her when she fell into a deep and noisy sleep, the officers said.[/font] => [URL]http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030116p2a00m0fp028000c.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]