By Ronron
May 23, 2007
Police formally charged on Wednesday noon before the prosecutor’s office the two cops implicated in the May 15 torching of a school in Batangas province that claimed three lives already and wounded five others.
Charges of arson resulting to double homicide and multiple serious physical injuries were lodged against Inspector Roberto Marinda and SPO2 William Relos, Jr., Batangas Team leader and assistant leader respectively of the Region IV-A Police Special Operations Group, for their alleged involvement in the burning of the Pinagbayanan Elementary School in Taysan, Batangas at 3am last May 15.
Six other John Does were included in the charge sheet, received past 12 noon yesterday by the Office of Batangas Provincial Prosecutor Benito Lat.
Director Geary Barias, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management, said the case may be upgraded to multiple homicide when the police takes hold of a copy of the death certificate of the third fatality, Guillermo Malaluan, who expired Monday night at the University of Sto. Tomas hospital in Manila City.
Barias reiterated yesterday that police has a very strong case against Marinda and Relos, citing the witnesses who implicated them.
The burning of the Pinagbayanan Elementary School immediately left a teacher and a poll watcher killed./DMS
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