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It was the Ombudsman who downgraded the cost from homicide to murder. That is solely the fourth recognized conviction of cops in relation to drug conflict operations in the course of the Duterte administration.
MANILA, Philippines – A Caloocan Metropolis courtroom has convicted 4 cops of murder over the killing of two folks – a father and his son – throughout a drug conflict operation within the metropolis in 2016.
Caloocan Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom (RTC) Department 121 Presiding Choose Ma. Rowena Violago Alejandria convicted Police Grasp Sergeant Virgilio Cervantes and police corporals Arnel de Guzman, Johnston Alacre, and Artemio Saguros of murder.
They had been convicted for the killing of Luis and Gabriel Bonifacio in the course of the first few months of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug conflict.
The courtroom sentenced the 4 cops to imprisonment of 6 years, 8 months, and 21 days to eight years as minimal, and 1 day to 10 years as most.
They had been additionally ordered to pay P100,000 every for ethical, precise, and temperate harm, and civil indemnity.
That is solely the fourth recognized conviction of cops in connection to the Duterte’s drug conflict, out of the near 30,000 folks killed within the bloody marketing campaign. The primary was in 2018, when cops had been convicted of homicide within the Kian delos Santos case.
In 2022, Patrolman Jeffrey Perez was convicted of torture and planting of proof in relation to the killing of teenagers Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman. In March 2023, a Navotas courtroom convicted the identical cop for the homicide of Arnaiz and De Guzman.
What occurred earlier than
Mary Ann Domingo, Luis’ spouse, stated their home was raided by Caloocan cops previous midnight on September 15, 2016. Domingo stated she and their youngsters had been of their home when round 15 to twenty armed cops entered their home.
Luis was their goal and once they noticed him, they pointed their weapons at him. Mary Ann and the kids hurried upstairs whereas Luis was left pleading to the cops “on his knees with weapons pointed at his head.” Their son, Gabriel, refused to go away his father’s facet.
Later, Mary Ann stated she and their three different youngsters “had been ultimately dragged down the steps and out of doors” their residence and into the road. Afterwards, Mary Ann stated they heard gunshots. She was informed that her husband was useless whereas Gabriel was taken to the hospital. Gabriel later died.
In March 2017, Domingo filed a homicide grievance in opposition to the police officers and personnel concerned within the operation earlier than the Workplace of the Ombudsman. It took 4 years earlier than the Ombudsman issued a decision, and downgraded the grievance to murder. Though the Ombudsman rejected the self-defense arguments of the cops, the prosecutors stated they didn’t discover sufficient foundation to cost the cops with homicide, so the police had been as an alternative indicted for murder.
Domingo and her counsel, Kristina Conti of the Nationwide Union of Peoples’ Legal professionals, appealed the Ombudsman’s decision however had been denied. They tried to assail the Ombudsman’s decision earlier than the Supreme Courtroom (SC), however the SC denied their petition, together with Mary Ann’s request for a brief restraining order. – Rappler.com
