PHOTO FROM DACERA’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
“There are many options on our part. The Dacera family can go to the Department of Justice to appeal this dismissal or we can refile this case,” Brick Reyes, lawyer of the Dacera family, said on Tuesday, April 27.
“We are not going to say amen to this dismissal because we are looking for truth and justice not only for Christine Dacera,” Reyes stressed.
In a 19-page resolution dated April 23, Assistant City Prosecutor Joan G. Bolina-Santillan said “this office finds that the evidence presented are insufficient to engender a well-founded belief that rape, homicide, or rape with homicide has been committed.”
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Charged with falsification of official document was Maj. Michael Nick W. Sarmiento who conducted the initial autopsy.
Also charged were Mark Anthony Rosales, Darwin Joseph Macalla, Gregorio Angelo Rafael de Guzman, Alain Chen and lawyer Neptali Maroto, and five of Dacera’s friends Romel Galido, Reymar Englis, Louie Delima, John Pascual dela Serna III, and Jezreel Rapinan,
The complaints against them were filed by the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) Death Investigation Division (DID) on Friday, March 12.
“Results of the NBI investigation revealed the glaring inconsistencies in the PNP autopsy report,” the complaint said.
It said that the “results of the autopsy report conducted by the NBI Medico Legal Division chief revealed that in contrast to the autopsy report of P/Maj. Sarmiento, M.D., victim’s urinary bladder was full of urine and in fact was able to extract 130 ml (milligrams) of urine and no abrasion was found in her labia.”
Christine Dacera
(Instagram / FILE PHOTO)
NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand M. Lavin on Tuesday, March 2, said the Dacera family, despite its commitment, has not turned over the mobile telephone for examination.
“We are just being thorough in our investigation,” Lavin explained about the decision of NBI investigators to ask for the flight attendant’s mobile phone.
“We are hoping we could get some leads from the phone,” he said.
The late Dacera was found unconscious last Jan. 1 in the bath tub of her room at the City Garden Grand Hotel in Makati City where she celebrated the new year with her friends.
Published February 16, 2021, 10:45 AM
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are set to go to the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Tuesday, Feb. 16, to share findings on the investigations conducted on the death of flight attendant Christine Angelica F. Dacera.
Christine Dacera (Instagram)
NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said in a text message that “shared or joint examination will be done at PNP Crime laboratory.”
Dacera was found unconscious last Jan. 1 in the bath tub of her room at the City Garden Grand Hotel in Makati City where she celebrated the new year with her friends.