The Manila regional trial court sentenced three people to 40 years in jail for killing a student of the University of the Philippines-Manila campus during a robbery in 2004.
Herbert Malubay, William Sudayao and Amador Ablana III were found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of attempted robbery with homicide by Judge Reynaldo Alhambra.
Alhambra also ordered the three men to pay the heirs of Jim Carlo Calub P75,000 for his death and P250,000 as actual, moral and exemplary damages.
The charges against a fourth respondent, Michael Llaneta Jr., were dismissed when he died on April 1, 2007.
The four men were convicted of stabbing Calub, 20, a third-year nursing student, on June 24, 2004 when he refused to give them his cell phone and wallet. The four men were robbing the passengers of an FX taxi at the corner of Remedios street and Taft Avenue in Manila. – Sandy Araneta