AKARI head coach Taka Minowa made it a point to take the team’s pre-playoffs training sessions up a notch — the Japanese way.

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Ms Lumsdon said that a post-mortem examination showed that Mr Groves suffered 12 stab wounds, including three to his neck that severed his jugular vein, and four wounds to his back which cut up to ...