Police Brigadier General Debold Sinas, director of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas, said there is no bad blood between the police and the National Bureau of Investigation | CDND File Photo
CEBU CITY, Philippines – – There is no bad blood between the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) and the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7).
The regional leaders of these two agencies said they are in good terms despite presenting different suspects involved in the brutal killing of Christian Lee Silawan.
“Actually, we (PRO-7 and NBI-7) already agreed. We will let the prosecutor decide,” said Brigadier General Debold Sinas, director of PRO-7.
On March 18, NBI-7 announced that a minor lad then, who was said to be the late Christine’s boyfriend, is the main suspect of Silawan’s murder. He is now 18 years old.
On April 10, the Philippine National Police revealed in a press interview with reporters in Tagbilaran, Bohol that a 42-year-old man confessed to killing Silawan.
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Sinas and NBI-7 Chief Tomas Enrile had a brief meeting on Wednesday, April 24, at the NBI-7 headquarters in Cebu City.
The meeting happened after Sinas attended a morning press conference at the Archbishop’s Palace on the updates of the ongoing National Youth Day 2019.
On the same day, Sinas declined to make any further comments on the updates regarding the case, saying that it is now up to the fiscal on how they want to go about both findings.
On Wednesday evening, in Manila, PNP spokesman Colonel Bernard Banac disclosed in a text message that the DNA samples taken from the scissors used in Silawan’s murder matched self-confessed perpetrator Renato Llenes.
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NBI-7 Chief Tomas Enrile said they are in close coordination with the police and are even “sharing notes.”
“We are very close. It just really happened that we have different findings. We already filed anyway, so it is now up to the fiscal,” Enrile said. /celr