As Kian Loyd delos Santos’ family basked in the triumph of the court’s conviction of three former Caloocan City police officers for his cold-blooded murder in 2017, the euphoria also lifted the spirits of the lawyers and families of other victims in President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs.
On Thursday, PO3 Arnel Oares, PO1 Jeremias Pereda and PO1 Jerwin Cruz became the first policemen convicted of a planned killing in connection with the brutal antidrug campaign that has killed close to 5,000 mostly poor people since 2016.
Caloocan City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Rodolfo Azucena Jr. sentenced them to up to 40 years in prison without parole for murdering the Grade 12 student on Aug. 16, 2017—the second day in a weeklong wave of killings across Manila that left nearly 90 dead.
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