Cases filed vs accused in killing of Aeta couple

CEBU, Philippines - For waiving his right for a preliminary investigation, the accused in the killing of an Aeta couple faces charges in court.

Naga City Prosecutor Napoleon Alburo charged Victor Sandoy for two counts of murder and recommended no bail against the accused.

In the affidavit executed by Lilia Sanger, she said she was the mother of the victim Marjelly Albero who was shot dead by Sandoy.

She said on March 25, 2012 at about 5:10 a.m. she heard the sound of gun fires which prompted her to go out. She then saw their neighbors running towards the house of victims Johnny and Marjelly Albero.

“I too came to the house. There I saw Johnny and Marjelly, herbal medicines lying prostrate on the ground with blood oozing from their heads,” affidavit reads.

Sanger said prior to the incident, Johnny confessed to her that unidentified persons have been tailing him especially at nighttime.

Likewise, she said her daughter told her that Sandoy had threatened to kill her.

In the affidavit executed by the nine-year-old son of the couple, he stated that on March 25 at Sitio Buyo, Barangay South Poblacion, Naga City while they were inside their house, he heard a voice asking if they have medicines.

“I heard my mother commanded my father to open the door, then my father opened the door and I heard the three of them laughing with each other while having a conversation, then my mother asked Victor Sandoy why he is so early then Victor said that he is around because he wants his relative to undergo healing and to be healed,” the boy’s affidavit reads.

The minor said her mother told the accused to get inside.

“My mother went to her bag near the door and got the herbal medicine… The suspect followed her and without apparent reason pointed the gun at her right eye and shot her,” he added.

He said when her father got closer to her mother and was about to hug her, the accused also pointed the gun at his father and shot him.

The accused was arrested in Cogon Pardo, Cebu City.

Meanwhile, the counsel of the accused, lawyer Julius Caesar Entise, said they will be questioning in court the legality of the arrest as the police did it without a warrant. —(FREEMAN)