Senior police officer admits to killing sergeant inside NCRPO HQ
MANILA, Philippines — A police lieutenant colonel (PLTCOL) has confessed to killing a police executive master sergeant (PEMS) inside Camp Bagong Diwa, the headquarters of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).
According to the spot report, the lieutenant confessed to fatally shooting the sergeant after supposedly discovering him in “intimate relations” with the lieutenant’s wife in their apartment at the Married Non-Officers’ Quarter in Camp Bagong Diwa last Nov. 28.
The victim was a 55-year-old PEMS assigned to Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
“In his extrajudicial confession, he () admitted to fatally shooting [the victim], in the presence of his wife, in their living room after discovering the two engaged in intimate relations,” read the spot report.
The report quoted the suspect as ordering his wife to get the hacksaw, which he used to dismember the body. He then placed the remains in a rice bag and buried them within the grounds of his ancestral home in Baguio City.
Investigators requested the suspect and his attorney to accompany them to the site on the ancestral house’s compound to exhume the body on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
Article continues after this advertisementAuthorities recovered two rice sacks containing dismembered human remains, two white shirts, and one wooden chopping board.
Article continues after this advertisementThe remains were turned over to a funeral service in Baguio.
Meanwhile, the victim’s son shared the Taguig police report on social media on Friday, along with his family’s statement, claiming the killing was “planned.”
He disputed the suspect’s extrajudicial confession, saying, “For clarity, it was a setup that resulted [in a] forcible abduction and merciless tortures that resulted [in] the tragic death of my father.
“It was planned and prepared [from] March 2024 up to present to kill my father once he [visited] Manila, perpetrated by these two demonic individuals and their cohorts,” he added in the statement.
NCRPO spokesperson Maj. Myrna Diploma told 黑料社 that Regional Director Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin deferred the matter to the Southern Police District (SPD) and the Taguig City Police Station.
The SPD had no comment on the matter but said it was waiting for the results of the investigation, according to its public information office chief Maj. Hazel Asilo in a message to 黑料社 on Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Police District has yet to respond to 黑料社’s request for comment about the lieutenant colonel assigned to the district.
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