http://www.sunstar.com.ph/By Kevin A. Lagunda
Friday, October 10, 2014
'INNOCENT.' Bella Ruby Santos is thankful that the charges against her have been dismissed but sad because the killers of six-year-old Ellah Joy Pique remains scot-free. (SUN.STAR PHOTO)BELLA Ruby Santos, the woman accused in the kidnap-slay of six-year-old Ellah Joy Pique in 2011, is now free.
Regional Trial Court Judge Ester Veloso of Branch 6 ordered the dismissal of the case against Santos, saying that the prosecution failed to establish the identity of the criminal.
Veloso’s order stemmed from the demurrer to evidence that Santos’s lawyer Rameses Villagonzalo filed in May this year.
In that pleading, Villagonzalo said the case “is based on a lie, a frame-up.â€
Disappointed“We cried. We are so disappointed,†said Renante Pique, Ellah Joy’s father, upon learning of the dismissal.
Santos’s British boyfriend and co-accused in the case, Ian Charles Griffiths, is still charged with the killing of Ellah Joy because the court has not acquired jurisdiction on him.
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