Reluctant groom sets venue on fireArticle from: October 27, 2008 01:33pm
A JAPANESE man due to get married at the weekend set fire to the hotel where the ceremony was to take place rather than go through with it.
Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
"I thought if I set a fire I wouldn't have to go through with the wedding," the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.
Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set the fire early on Sunday at the resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
Mr Kawata and his fiancee had been set to get married before 80 guests.
He was arrested after suddenly cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.
