NBI ready for Vizconde case reinvestigation
By Pat C. Santos 12/19/2010The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has expressed its readiness to conduct a re-investigation of the 1991 Vizconde massacre after the Office of the President issued an order to reopen the celebrated rape and murder case.
In a memorandum signed on Dec. 16, 2010 by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, President Aquino directed the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the NBI to use all their resources to bring about the solution of the case.
It will be recalled that the Supreme Court acquitted Hubert Jeffrey Webb and six others who were convicted by the lower courts, junking as not credible the testimony of the government’s “star witness”, drug addict Jessica Alfaro, which was found inconsistent and illogical, while Webb’s alibi was found to have been strongly substantiated by records from the United States Immigration agency, and other witnesses proving that Webb was in the United States at the time the rape and murder were committed.
Special Investigator (SI) IV Cecilio Zamora, spokesman for the NBI, earlier had said the agency
is ready once again an official order is received by his office in connection with the reinvestigation of the Vizconde massacre case..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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