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Homicide ruled out in Dacera case (Eagle News) – The 23-year old flight attendant Christine Dacera died due to natural causes, specifically because of “ruptured aortic aneurysm,” according to a Philippine National Police medico-legal report released recently. In a medico-legal report, the PNP said that homicide is being ruled out in the Dacera case as the autopsy results showed she died of natural causes due to the rupture of her aorta. The immediate cause […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said on Tuesday that a second DNA test on the body found in Gapan, Nueva Ecija on September 5 was underway. In a radio interview, Aguirre said he would ask the National Bureau of Investigation to do this. According to Aguirre, although many court decisions give a lot of weight on DNA test results, “there are instances these are discredited if the procedure was wrong or if […]
(Eagle News) – Paraffin tests done by the police on the slain Grade 11 student Kian Loyd delos Santos showed he was negative for gunpowder nitrates, which meant he did not fire a gun contrary to the arresting policemen’s claim. “Both hands of the cadaver do not contain gunpowder nitrates,” said the results of the Philippine National Police’s paraffin tests on Kian’s body. “The qualitative examination conducted on the paraffin cast taken from both hands […]
SELANGOR STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — Lawyers representing two women charged with killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader said on Friday (June 16) that some of the documents they had received from prosecutors would be sent to experts in Denmark and other countries for further assessment. The prosecutors handed over a set of 44 documents, including toxicology, autopsy, and arrest reports, the suspects’ statements and photographs, to the women’s lawyers earlier in the day, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pyongyang’s state media on Thursday blasted Malaysia for an “illegal and immoral” autopsy on a man believed be the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, breaking a 10-day silence on the airport assassination. “Malaysia is obliged to hand his body to the DPRK (North Korea) side as it made an autopsy and forensic examination of it in an illegal and immoral manner”, the North’s Korean Jurists Commitee said, in comments carried […]
