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A Philippine police chief was fired for claiming that a flight attendant was gang-raped and killed, but his 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 the 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 dropped by prosecutors who said additional investigations, including an autopsy, revealed that Dacera died of a brain aneurysm.
Now, an order has been issued to dismiss Makati Police Chief Col. Harold Depositar in light of massive criticism for handling the high-profile case, the BBC reported.
Her mother has rejected the autopsy result, insisting that her daughter was raped and murdered, and that her killers must be held accountable.
An order to remove Makati Police Chief Colonel Harold Depositar has been issued in light of the massive criticism for handling the high-profile Christine Dacera case.
Christine Dacera was found dead in a bathtub at the Garden City Grand Hotel in Makati, Philippines, on New Year’s Day.
The mother of a flight attendant who died at a New Years Eve party at a luxury hotel in the Philippines criticized the official autopsy that found her daughter died of a ‘ruptured aortic aneurysm’
The police have provisionally charged 11 men who were with Dacera and who were in adjacent hotel rooms with rape and murder.
The body of 23-year-old Christine Angelica Dacera was found in a bathroom at the City Garden Hotel in the city of Makati in the Philippine region of Metro Manila after a New Year’s Eve party.
One of her colleagues, Rommel Galida, who was later arrested as a suspect, recounted how he woke up around 10 a.m. and saw her asleep in the bathtub.
He said he covered her with a blanket before going back to sleep and only found out that she was seriously ill when she woke up later and raised the alarm.
The stewardess from the city of General Santos was found dead in a bathtub at the hotel
Former suspect Gregorio de Guzmán, pictured above, insisted that he is innocent, claiming that he and the other accused men are all homosexuals.
Initially, the police claimed that it was a case of gang rape, which was reported around the world, but has now backtracked after admitting that they made the claim without an autopsy. In fact, the body had already been embalmed ready for burial, according to reports.
Now it has been revealed that all the men have said that they are gay.
The autopsy showed that Christine likely died of an aortic aneurysm, a ruptured heart possibly caused by high blood pressure. However, it was not confirmed because the body had already been embalmed.
One of his colleagues, Rommel Galida, woke up around 10 a.m. and noticed Dacera in the bathtub.
Dacera was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead after a friend thought she was asleep in the bathtub but found her in the same position hours later. In the photo: the hotel where Dacera died
“If you see Christine’s body, if you are the mother, you will surely feel the pain that Christine suffered from them, but my daughter cannot speak anymore because she died,” Christine’s mother, Ms. Dacera, told the Headstart program.
‘There were lacerations on my daughter, bruises, how come it wasn’t written [in the autopsy]? I can’t accept the autopsy they did on me.
‘There was a crime, my daughter is dead. There was a crime, ‘he said.
Those responsible should pay for my daughter’s death. That’s justice to me. ‘
The Makati City Prosecutor’s Office said the ‘evidence presented so far is insufficient to establish that [Ms Dacera] she was sexually assaulted or raped, ”reported the New Zealand Herald.
The Dacera family is now calling for the Philippine National Police medico-legal officer to be fired, claiming they failed the autopsy.
The family believes that Christine Dacera was drugged and abused prior to her death.
The New Zealand Herald reported that the family claimed that the young woman “had already experienced poisoning and complained that her drinks appeared to have been fortified” during the New Year’s party.
Dacera, 23, was celebrating New Year’s Eve at the luxurious City Garden Hotel in Makati.
“We also believe that perhaps the aneurysm was a proximate cause, but it is also very possible that it was caused by the assault prior to his death,” said the family’s attorney, Brick Reyes, according to The Inquirer.
A second autopsy should be performed on Dacera’s body, this time by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). The results are expected to be released sometime this week.
The NBI is hopeful that the second autopsy will confirm how Dacera died, but said his remains “were already contaminated,” according to the New Zealand Herald.
Dacera’s body was embalmed before the second autopsy, and some of the evidence previously collected appeared to have deteriorated, according to Ferdinand Lavin, deputy director of the NBI.
The CCTV footage reportedly shows Dacera’s final moments before she was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in a hotel room in the Philippines.
Eleven men were provisionally charged in connection with the rape and murder of the 23-year-old PAL Express crew member.
‘We know it was quite impossible [to get proper evidence] considering that there have already been some commitments and the body has shown signs of deterioration, but that did not discourage us, ”he told reporters on Saturday.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Tuesday that the NBI had successfully extracted urine samples from Dacera’s body that can “provide a lot of information to the forensic team.”
Before her death, Dacera had checked into the hotel with three male friends and one other male. More men joined them later for a New Years Eve party.
CCTV footage shows a barefoot Dacera in the hotel corridor. In one image, she is holding a glass of wine as several men follow her into the room.
Makati Police Chief Colonel Harold Depositar, who has since been fired, said the 23-year-old had wounds to her arms and legs and traces of sperm on her genitals. He said his death was the result of a rape and a homicide.
He said: ‘Only three of them were friends with Dacera.
“ The others were practically unknown to her, as only her three friends knew about them. ”
Depositar went on to say: ‘Sure, there was force inflicted on his body because we found bruises on his leg and knees, and there is an abrasion on his thigh.’
He added that semen had been found “in various places in the hotel rooms.”
