Closed door meet for Ebarita slay case
Cebu Daily News
Filed Under: Crime and Law and Justice, Crime, Police, Politics
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City police officials will attend a closed-door session on Monday with the city's councilors to “allow them to freely talk†about reports that attempts were made to derail the murder investigation into the death of call center agent Lynn Vi Ebarita.
“We will invite the (victim’s) father to allow him to express his concern and have the police give him the status of the investigation and reassure him as well,†Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna said.
The venue is the vice mayor’s office.
Senior Superintendent Orlando Ualat, Mandaue City Police Office chief, and Lynn Vi's father, Vicente Ebarita Jr., were invited to the special session.
Lynn Vi’s body was found inside Nikkei Garden Hotel with at least 24 stab wounds. Murder charges were filed against her close friend, Jonnelle Enfectana.
Amid denials by top police officials, Fortuna raised concerns over reports that a politician from Borongan town in Samar, the hometown of Enfectana, had tried to influence Mandaue investigators by using connections with senior police officials.
Three other murder suspects, described as Enfectana's relatives in Eastern Visayas, are still at large.
Fortuna said he received reliable information last week that politicians and ranking policemen outside of the city are influencing the investigation.
The vice mayor said the suspicion was bolstered by the transfer of Chief Inspector Eddie Recamara, head of the team that investigated the death of Ebarita.
Recamara is now assigned at the police station 4 in Barangay (village) Casuntingan.
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