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BuCor: 'Two Villamors detained at NBP before, on the day Percy Lapid was killed'

Published Oct 23, 2022 10:55 am

Bureau of Corrections

There were two persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) with the surname of Villamor detained at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City before and on the day broadcast journalist Percival Mabasa, better known as Percy Lapid, was killed last Oct. 3 in Las Pinas City.

BuCor Deputy Director General Gabriel Chaclag identified them as Jun Globa Villamor and Jose Palana Villamor.

Jun died at the NBP hospital last Oct. 18 while Jose was transferred to the Custodial Center of the Philippine National Police (PNP) last Oct. 20, Chaclag said.

He said the two Villamors are counsins.

With the death of Jun inside NBP, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla placed BuCor Director General Gerald Q. Bantag under preventive suspension while the probe on the death is in progress.

Remulla said the preventive suspension of Bantag was on orders of President Ferdinand "Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “to preclude the possibility of exerting undue influence or pressure on the witnesses... or tampering of documentary evidence....”

The self-confessed killer of Mabasa, Jose S. Escorial, confirmed in his affidavit during inquest proceedings before the Department of Justice (DOJ) last Oct. 18 that a certain Crisanto Palana Villamor hired him to kill the hard-hitting radio commentator. Escorial alleged that Crisanto is “from NBP.”

During the inquest proceedings held at the DOJ last Oct. 18, Escorial in the presence of his private counsel, “voluntarily re-affirmed his affidavit (Extra Judicial Confession), admitting among others, the killing of Percy Lapid.”

“He acknowledged that on 03 October 2022, at around 8:30 P.M., in Aria Street, Sta. Ceclia Village, Barangay Talon Dos, Las Pinas City, he shot Percy Lapid three (3) times using a caliber .45 pistol, and that he was accompanied by Israel Adao Dimaculangan, Edmon Adao Dimaculangan and a certain alias Orly/Orlando,” the DOJ said.

“They planned and executed the same upon the inducement or order of a certain Crisanto Palana Villamor, also known as ‘Idoy,’ who promised to pay them P550,000,” it added.

The DOJ also said that Escorial revealed that his three co-respondents were instructed to join him “because a certain Christopher Bacoto (Yoyoy), also known as ‘Jerry Sandoval,’ talked to his companions to help him in killing Percy Lapid.”

Secretary Remula said the PNP also secured Bacoto who is a detainee of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).

TAGS: #DOJ #Percy Lapid #BuCor

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