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Father
willing to pay ransom (09/20/2001)
The father of Lucie Blackilometresan, a young Briton who went missing
in Japan over two months ago, hinted yesterday he would be willing
to pay ransom to a "religious cult" if her disappearance
was linked to such a group.
Japanese media have reported that Lucie's roommate, Louise Phillips,
received a call from a man giving his name as Akira Takagi to say
Lucie was training with a religious cult and would be in meditation
for at least a week. Although Timothy Blackilometresan had previously
expressed doubts that his daughter had any links to a religious
cult, yesterday he said that if it was an issue of money involved
in initiating Lucie into a cult, he would be willing to pay to get
her out.
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