A Japanese woman has been arrested after calling the police when a hitman she hired to kill her lover's girlfriend failed to do the job. The 32-year-old woman from Tokyo was arrested for incitement to murder, the Daily Yomiuri newspaper reports.

The woman hired a private detective she found on the internet to get rid of her rival who she suspected of seeing her lover. She paid the detective 1 million yen to do the job. When the detective failed to murder the woman, she called the police in frustration and was then arrested, along with the detective.

The supposed victim is reported as doing well.