Respondents in Dacera case not informed of their rights lawyer By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 14, 2021 11:07am Some of the respondents in the Christine Dacera case were not informed of their rights to a lawyer and to remain silent when they were brought in for police questioning, their lawyer said Thursday. JP Dela Serna and Rommel Galido, two of the three who were detained by Makati City police, said they were not read their Miranda rights, according to their lawyer Abby Portugal. “They were not informed of their rights,” Portugal told GMA News Online. Dela Serna, Galido, and John Paul Halili were detained by police until prosecutors ordered them released for further investigation last week.
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.
JP dela Serna retracts there were powder drugs during party with Dacera lawyer By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 13, 2021 4:44pm
Updated January 13, 2021 8:47pm JP dela Serna, one of the respondents in the Christine Dacera case, retracted Wednesday an earlier statement on the presence of powder drugs during the New Year s Eve celebration that preceded their friend s death. It was earlier reported that Dela Serna, one of the respondents, said in a sworn statement that Mark Anthony Rosales, another respondent, had brought powder drugs and invited him to use it. He said he declined. But Abby Portugal, one of the lawyers of Dela Serna and four other respondents, said her clients were pressured by Makati police to say that.
PNP identifying other men who stayed in adjacent hotel room on the night of Dacera s death
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 8) The Philippine National Police is now focusing on naming the second group of men who were with flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera hours before her death.
Metro Manila police chief Vicente Danao, Jr. said Friday that the Special Investigation Task Group Dacera Case has convened yesterday to focus on the ongoing probe. Its immediate goal is to collect additional evidence to strengthen the possible cases which may be filed regarding the 23-year-old s death on New Year s Day.
Published January 8, 2021, 9:13 AM
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Relatives of the late flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera has appealed for help from President Duterte as they maintained that the victim was sexually abused and killed while attending a New Year’s eve party with friends at a hotel in Makati City.
Sharon Dacera, the victim’s mother, sought the help of Duterte to give justice for the death of her daughter whose remains arrived in the city from Manila on Thursday.
Talking to reporters at a local funeral parlor where the her daughter’s remains were taken, Dacera said they have witnesses and pieces of evidence to prove that her daughter was sexually abused as she called on the other suspects who remain at-large to come out and shed light on the incident.