A Philippines police chief has been sacked for claiming an air stewardess was gang-raped and murdered, but her family insist he was telling the truth.
Christine Dacera was found dead in a bathtub at the Garden City Grand Hotel in Makati, Philippines on New Year s Day.
Eleven men were provisionally charged with rape and murder of the 23-year-old PAL Express crew member after police investigations found injuries to her arms and legs and traces of sperm on her body.
But the charges were slapped down by prosecutors who said further investigations including a post-mortem revealed Dacera died from a brain aneurysm.
The mother of a flight attendant who died at a New Year s Eve party in a luxury Philippines hotel has blasted the official autopsy that found her daughter died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm .
Sharon Dacera said she will not accept the results of the autopsy, telling a news programme: For me, my daughter was raped .
Christine Dacera was found dead in a bathtub at the Garden City Grand Hotel in Makati, Philippines on New Year s Day.
Eleven men were provisionally charged with rape and murder of the 23-year-old PAL Express crew member after police investigations found injuries to her arms and legs and traces of sperm on her body.