after find out that the lawyer had been sleeping with his wife

The skilled boxer is thought to have carried out the attack

Japanese police have arrested a man accused of bursting into a lawyer's office and cutting off his penis with garden shears before flushing it down a toilet.

Local media reports said Ikki Kodukai, a 24-year-old Tokyo graduate student, may have carried out the horrifying act in revenge over his wife's romantic involvement with the 42-year-old victim.

Police said Kodukai, who was arrested shortly after the alleged attack, punched the unnamed lawyer several times before prying off his pants and then severing his 'lower body part' with the shears.

Callous: Questioned about what he had done with the severed penis, Kodukai is said to have told officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (pictured) that he had flushed it down the toilet

The Japan Today website reported that the attack occurred at about 7.40 this morning. The husband, said to be a skilled boxer, was arrested shortly afterwards.

A coy Japanese police spokesman said the lawyer's 'lower part' had been severed with shears.

Questioned about what he had done with the severed organ, Kodukai is said to have told officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department that he had flushed it down the toilet.

The website said later that Japanese police had admitted that the body part in question was the man's genitals.

Local media reports said Ikki Kodukai, a 24-year-old graduate student from Tokyo (picturd), may have carried out the horrifying act in revenge over his wife's romantic involvement with the 42-year-old victim

The lawyer, who has not been named, is receiving hospital treatment, but his immediate condition was not known.

Witnesses claimed that although he'd lost a lot of blood, his life was not in any danger.

Writers on the Japan Today comment page reacted with mixed emotions to the story, one saying he felt sorry for the humiliated husband, while another joked that the husband would probably be bound over to keep the piece.

It is not the first time a penis has ended up down a toilet as a result of a sexual encounter.