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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Japanese pa, son kill selves in hotel
By Rene H. Martel
TWO Japanese nationals, a father and son, were found dead inside a room in Cebu City Marriott Hotel yesterday afternoon. They had an orange nylon rope tied around their necks with the other end fastened to the louvre of the closet.
Akihiro Owa, 77, and son Masaaki, 41, both of Nagano, Japan, had been staying in the hotel since June 7.
Based on a letter from the hotel management, they had an unsettled bill of P593,397.70 as of noon of Aug. 21.
The letter, dated Aug. 21, was signed by Danny Luzada, the hotel’s director of finance. It confirmed the receipt of the two Citibank checks with a total amount of P600,000 as a guarantee of their outstanding balance.
It took homicide investigators SPO2 Alex Dacua and PO3 Dennis Moga six hours to finish their ocular investigation inside room 1016, a double room where the two were found.
Moga said they checked the bags and other belongings of the two hoping to find a suicide note, but there was none.
Homicide Chief Arestides Macatangay said that initially, their investigation led to suicide but they will check all other angles.
“The father was kneeling on the chair while his son’s legs were folded so he would not touch the floor. They could have saved themselves had they wanted to because they could have just stood up. The room was closed and there was no sign of struggle,†Macatangay said.
Except for abrasions on their neck, the two had no other significant injury to indicate foul play, an autopsy showed.
PNP Medico Legal Officer Nestor Satur, who made the autopsy, said asphyxia by hanging killed the two.
No solid food was found in their intestines, indicating the two had not taken food for some hours.
The two were both wearing long pants and socks. The father was in a T-shirt while the son was in a polo shirt.
They had wrapped their neck with a face towel before they tied their neck with a seven-foot rope.
SPO2 Dacua said police have yet to establish what pushed the two to take their own life but are considering the victims’ liability to the hotel as the possible cause.
“Please be reminded that we have given you adequate consideration to delay the deposit of the first check dated Aug. 20, 2002 worth P400,000 by one more day. However, in the interest of the hotel, we are firm on our stand to deposit both checks tomorrow Aug. 22, 2002,†hotel’s letter stated.
Aside from the demand letter, Dacua and Moga found a receipt dated Aug. 25 for a P26 worth of rope bought from True Value, a hardware at Ayala Center Cebu.
Front desk manager Jun Justo, in a press briefing with general manager Christianna Wasfy, said he still saw the two Japanese at the lobby between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. yesterday.
At past noon, he called their room to check if they wanted to have their room cleaned.
Despite several calls, nobody answered so he went upstairs and found a “Do not disturb†sign outside the door.
He kept on knocking but still nobody answered. He went down again and sought assistance from the engineering and the security office.
They went back to the room, knocked again and since there was still no response, Justo opened the door using a master key.
However, the door was “double locked or chained locked†from the inside so they were forced to cut the chain. When Justo got inside, he saw the two who “seemed lifeless.â€
Both Justo and the investigators said there was no sign of struggle inside the room.
Justo went out of the room and called the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (Eruf).
When the police arrived at past 2 p.m., the two were not stiff yet which means they died just a few hours ago.
Satur, who made the autopsy at 8:30 p.m., said the victims could have been dead for 10 hours.
Wasfy described the two Japanese as “nice and quiet guests.â€
But she said they do not have any idea as to the business of the two as it is not the hotel’s practice to check the background of their guests.
Aside from the receipt, demand letter, hotel bills and a cellular phone, the police also found their passports and a passport of a 14-year-old boy as well as Akihiro’s international driver’s license.
His address in the license is 14-C Paseo Mellisa Estate Park, Banilad, Cebu City.
Their remains were taken to Cebu Rolling Hills. With AIV
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