Man arrested for silently phone-stalking his wife

From Japan: a man has been arrested for making up to 100 silent phone calls a day to his wife, masking his phone number while doing so.  As explained in one news report:

Every time she answered, the caller would stay completely silent until she hung up, before calling her again just moments later.

As the number was withheld by the mysterious caller, she was unable to track down or block the perpetrator.

For weeks the woman grappled with her mysterious stalker, until slowly but surely a pattern started to emerge.

First of all, she realised the phone calls only ever occurred during the day and never at night, when she and her husband were asleep. In an unusual twist, she also noticed that she never received any calls when she borrowed her husband’s phone to play mobile games.

Eventually, she came to a startling revelation – the only time the calls stopped coming was when her husband did not have access to his phone.

Growing increasingly suspicious of her husband, she enlisted the police to keep tabs on him, and following an investigation he was arrested for violating anti-stalking laws.

As to the husband’s motive, as per the SoraNews24 website:

The whole thing gets even weirder when you factor in that the couple doesn’t appear to have had any pre-existing marital strife, and that when asked about his motives, the man said “I love my wife, and made phone calls to her without saying anything.”