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Police files raps versus suspects in mauling to death of U.S. citizen

DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 15 (PNA) – Police have filed a criminal complaint for murder before the city prosecutor’s office against four persons believed to be responsible for the untimely death of an American national who was mauled outside the ZanZibar Restaurant and Lounge in Dumaguete City last Dec. 26.

Insp. Blas Alpeche of the Dumaguete City police, who is the assigned investigator of the case, filed murder raps last Jan. 8 against bouncer Michael Lim, also known as Christopher Remollo Lim and Boyet; cook Glyn Herungay Eltagunde; a 17-year old waiter Nano; and a suspect known only as “John Doe.”

Lim appears to be the same person caught on CCTV camera as the one who allegedly smashed an empty bottle of beer on the head of the victim, Phil Prins, a U.S. Army Scout veteran who taught journalism at the Foundation University in Dumaguete City.

Prins died of multiple blunt traumas to the head on his 35th birthday last Dec. 29, three days after he was beaten up outside the ZanZibar resto-bar.

Present during the filing of the criminal complaint was the victim’s private lawyer Alexander Acain who arrived from Manila to make sure they will have an airtight case.

Part of the evidence submitted included the extrajudicial confession of the Eltagunde, the Zanzibar cook, who was also caught on CCTV camera as one of those who mauled the victim, and affidavits executed by media personalities to whom he confessed the crime.

The minor, “Nano”, and who works as a waiter at ZanZibar, admitted in his affidavit that he was also among those who kicked the victim while he was lying helpless on the ground.

However, the fourth suspect remained unnamed and at large, believed to be one of the customers of the said establishment.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled on Jan. 27 before Assistant City Prosecutor Alvin Aseniero at the Hall of Justice wherein at least three witnesses were summoned to appear during the said hearing.

They are Amir Hossein Baghari Lankarani and Mary Grace dela Cruz Sacro, the manager and cashier, respectively, of ZanZibar.

ZanZibar was ordered closed on orders of Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria for an indefinite period effective Jan. 14 after the city government discovered it was allegedly operating without the necessary mayor’s and business permits since last year. (PNA)
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