By Jonathan Hicap The family of slain University of the Philippines-Los Baños student Allan Gomez said former Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez has not paid a single centavo as damages for the crime as ordered by a court, 24 years after the local chief executive was convicted and sentenced to suffer seven reclusion perpetua, which carried a maximum penalty of 40 years each. The maximum security compound of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa where former mayor Antonio Sanchez is serving his sentence. (Jonathan Hicap / MANILA BULLETIN) “Wala pa po bayad or anything from their side,” Oliver John Gomez, Allan’s brother, told Manila Bulletin. Any day now, Sanchez will be released from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa as he is one of the 11,000 prisoners to benefit from Republic Act 10592, which increased the allowance for good conduct for prisoners. And up to this day, Gomez said, they have not attained peace of mind. READ MORE: Petition launched to stop release of ex-mayor Sanchez from prison “We have always feared for our lives ever since that fateful day.... To this day... No peace of mind,” said Oliver John, who is the eldest in a brood of four. He is opposing the release of Sanchez from prison. Gomez and Eileen Sarmenta were abducted by Sanchez’s cohorts on June 28, 1993 and were brought to the mayor’s Erais Farm in Barangay Curba, Calauan. “The two youngsters were then brought inside the resthouse where Eileen was taken to the Mayor’s room. Allan was badly beaten up by Luis, Boy, Ama and Medialdea and thereafter thrown out of the resthouse. Kawit followed-up by striking Allan’s diaphragm with the butt of an armalite, causing Allan to fall against a cement box. Brion thought Allan was already dead, but Kawit said: His death will come later,” according to a January 1999 Supreme Court decision. It added, “En route to Calauan, Centeno, who was driving the ambulance, noticed the van swaying from side to side. Then he heard gunfire coming therefrom. The van pulled over whereupon Kawit dragged Allan, whose head was already drenched in blood, out of the vehicle onto the road and finished him off with a single gunshot from his armalite. The ambulance and van then sped away.” During the promulgation of the case in 1995, Judge Harriet Demetriou sentenced Sanchez and six others accused to seven terms of reclusion perpetua each for the crime of rape with homicide and ordered them to pay P5.59 million to the Sarmenta family and P5.67 million to the Gomez family representing actual and moral damages, and attorney’s and litigation fees. The Supreme Court later modified the amount of damages in an October 2001 decision. It awarded the Gomez family P3.99 million and the Sarmenta family P3.98 million representing damages, death indemnity, loss of earning capacity and attorney’s fees. READ MORE: Under 2013 law, Sanchez has already served 49 years that made him eligible for release