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Branch 14 Metropolitan Trial Court acquits Solano of perjury (Eagle News)–A Manila court has convicted a member of the Aegis Juris fraternity of obstruction of justice. John Paul Solano, the first conviction in the Horacio Castillo III case, was, however acquitted of perjury by Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 14. It was Solano who brought Castillo to the hospital after the University of Sto. Tomas law freshman collapsed due to injuries allegedly sustained during hazing rites […]
(Eagle News)–Ten members of the Aegis Juris fraternity who have been accused of violating the Anti-Hazing Law over the death of Horacio Castillo III entered a not guilty plea in a Manila court on Tuesday, July 24. Arvin Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Ralph Trangia, Robin Ramos, Jose Miguel Salamat and Danielle Hans Matthew Rodrigo personally entered the plea at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch […]
(Eagle News) — The ten accused in the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III were transferred to the Manila City Jail on Wednesday, May 23. Clad in their orange T-shirts and what appeared to be bullet-proof vests, Arvin Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Axel Munro Hipe, Danielle Hans Matthew Rodrigo, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Ralph Trangia, Robin Ramos, Jose Miguel Salamat, and Marcelino Bagtang were brought out of the […]
(Eagle News) — The ten accused in the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III have been ordered transferred to the Manila City Jail. The order to transfer Arvin Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Ralph Trangia, Robin Ramos, Jose Miguel Salamat, Danielle Hans Mattew Rodrigo, and Marcelino Bagtang was issued by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 20. The ten have been currently […]
(Eagle News) — A Manila regional trial court has deferred the arraignment of the 10 Aegis Juris fraternity members who stand accused of the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III. Branch 20 postponed the arraignment of Mhin Wei Chan, Jose Miguel Salamat, John Robin G. Ramos, Marcelino Bagtang Jr., Arvin A. Balag, Ralph Trangia, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali and Hans Matthew Rodrigo on charges for violation of […]
(Eagle News) — Aegis Juris fraternity member John Paul Solano has pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him in connection with the death of University of Sto. Tomas law freshman Horacio Castillo III in September last year. The Department of Justice said Solano gave the plea for the perjury and obstruction of justice charges during his arraignment in the Manila Metropolitan Trial Branch 14 on March 21. It was Solano who said he […]
(Eagle News) — Parents of the 10 Aegis Juris fraternity members who were charged over the death of Horacio Castillo III have asked the National Bureau of Investigation to keep custody of their children. The parents said in a letter addressed to NBI director Dante Gierran that their children would not be safe after all if they were transferred to the Manila Police District. “The MPD is one of the complainants in the above-entitled […]
(Eagle News) — Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 40 Judge Alfonso Ampuan Jr. has inhibited himself from the Horacio Castillo III hazing case. Ampuan said he found it “appropriate” to grant the motion to inhibit of accused John Robin Ramos and Juan Miguel Salamat because they and their respective counsels “already nurtured any (bias at) the back of their minds the thought that the Presiding Judge of this Court has now tilted the scales of […]
(Eagle News) — The mother of Horacio Castillo III on Friday welcomed the voluntary surrender of the 10 accused in his death in September last year. ” I’m very happy they surrendered. They are facing the (consequences of) the crime they committed,” she said in an interview over CNN Philippines. According to her, she wanted to see the 10 young men in jail. She said they, after all, “disregarded the life of (her) son.” “You know, […]
(Eagle News) — The 10 accused in the hazing death of Horacio Castillo III were “emotional” when they were turned over by their parents to National Bureau of Investigation agents in Manila. This is according to Danilo Miany, executive officer of the NBI’s Internal Affairs Division, who facilitated the “voluntary surrender” of Mhin Wei Chan, Jose Miguel Salamat, John Robin G. Ramos, Marcelino Bagtang Jr., Arvin Balag, Ralph Trangia, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver Onofre, Joshua Joriel […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri on Friday hailed the “successive developments” in the Horacio Castillo III hazing case. Zubiri issued the statement on the same day the National Bureau of Investigation revealed that the 10 charged over the University of Sto. Tomas law freshman student’s death in September 2017 were in its custody. Mhin Wei Chan, Jose Miguel Salamat, John Robin G. Ramos, Marcelino Bagtang Jr., Arvin Balag, Ralph Trangia, Axel Munro Hipe, […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The accused in Horacio Castillo III’s death are now in National Bureau of Investigation custody following the issuance of an arrest warrant against them. NBI deputy director Ferdinand Lavin confirmed that all 10 ordered arrested by Manila Branch 40 Judge Alfredo Ampuan Jr. on Thursday were “picked up” from one place and brought to the NBI on Friday, around 11 a.m. Mhin Wei Chan, Jose Miguel Salamat, John Robin G. […]
