The American tourist suspected of decapitating his date then putting her severed head in a bag and scattering the rest of her body in the woods while on vacation in Japan has been sentenced to just eight years in prison.

Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, of Long Island, New York, admitted to having killed Saki Kondo, 27, dismembering her and then dumping her body parts around several Japanese cities in 2018.

He met Kondo on a dating app, either Tinder or Matchapp, according to reports.

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US tourist Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, (left) was sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting he murdered Saki Kondo, 27 (right), after they met online and had a date in 2018

The last time Kondo was seen alive was in security footage showing her entering Bayraktar's vacation rental property on February 15, 2018. Although she was never seen again, he was spotted exiting the rental with several bags.

Bayraktar was arrested on February 22 in a different rental after Kondo was reported missing. Police found the woman's head in a bag in a short-term lodging room in Osaka.

Afterwards, Bayraktar led police to her severed torso and the rest of Kondo's body, which he had scattered in the woods in Shimamoto, 25 miles away.

Bayraktar was said to have strangled Kondo to death, according to his indictment.

Bayraktar was tried for manslaughter and destruction and abandoning a corpse, instead of murder, because it was unclear whether he had purposely set out to kill her, according to the Tokyo Reporter.

Japanese prosecutors had asked for a 13-year prison sentence because he had attempted to conceal evidence, including deleting the dating app, while the defense had said a five-year sentence was enough since he had shown remorse for his crime and told investigators where to find Kondo's body parts.

'I will be burdened with this crime until the day I die,' Bayraktar was reported to have said during the trial, adding, 'I am so sorry.'

Bayraktar was ultimately sentenced to eight years in prison.

Kondo’s father said that 'the sentence is too light and the truth remains unknown,' according to Japan Today.

Bayraktar is seen hiding his face as he leads Japanese officials out of jail to take them to the places where he had scattered Kondo's dismembered body parts in February 2018

Kondo was last seen alive on February 15, entering Bayraktar's vacation rental. He was later filmed leaving the apartment afterwards with bags

After the woman's head was found, Bayraktar led police to Shimamoto, 25 miles from Osaka, where her severed arms and torso were discovered

Bayraktar lives in Long Island and grew up in the US after moving when he was nine with his mother Regina when she married Texan Benny Dacy, who she had met online.

Dacy told The New York Post that Bayraktar was spoiled by his 'selfish' mother who abandoned her husband after he brought her and her son into the country and financed her nursing studies.

'He was a mama's boy. If we were having dinner and he didn’t like the food, his mother would get up in the middle of the meal to cook him something special, and this was at a time when we didn’t have a lot of money,' Dacy, Bayraktar's former stepfather, said.

'He and his mother were very close. He and I were not,' Dacy said.

Bayraktar briefly served in the Air Force before being discharged in 2012. It is not known why he was left but he was there for just 11 months.

He lives in Long Island in Mastic Beach with his mother and her third husband.

Their home is quaint and is adorned with several US flags outside.

The vacation rental in Osaka, Japan, where the woman's head was found in a bag. Bayraktar was arrested in a different rental, where he's thought to have spent time with Kondo

Bayraktar lives on Long Island, in this home with his mother Regina and her third husband

Regina works as a nurse in the Hamptons.

According to her first American husband, she and Yevgeniy were living modestly in Odessa, Russia, when he met her online.

He traveled there to meet her in person then brought the pair to the US to live with him in Texas.

They spent several years together while she studied to become a nurse but once she received her qualifications she and her son disappeared, he said.

'She called once to ask me for a divorce but I had no idea where they were until the news hit.

'It was the most traumatic time of my life when she just left me. She is a very selfish woman,' he said.

According to Japanese officials cited by The Japan Times, Bayraktar had met several Japanese women online and taken them to various vacation rentals around Japan before he met Kondo.

All of those women are safe.