Labrador. (CDN PHOTO/ FE MARIE DUMABOC)
Charges were filed yesterday against the three laborers arrested for killing and burying a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in their home’s septic tank in Minglanilla town.
Manuel Labrador, Estelito Ricamora, and George Baquiran were brought by police to the Cebu Provincial Prosecutors’ Office where charges of double murder and robbery were filed.
When presented before Prosecutor Mary Ann Degamo, the three accused waived their right to a preliminary investigation and the chance to submit counter-affidavits.
Chief Insp. Richard Gadingan of the Minglanilla Police Station said at least three neighbors of the victims executed affidavits against the three accused.
Gadingan said Ricamora also executed an extra-judicial confession which bolstered their case.
Ricamora accused Labrador of killing the victims.
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He said he just helped Ricamora bury the victims.
The mother, Virginia Dialo Sharpe, 37, and her daughter Mica Ellah died of blows to the head.
The suspects were hired to help renovate the family’s newly bought unit in Deca Homes Subdivision in time for the expected arrival of Virginia’s British husband.
Virginia was last seen in the neighborhood in Aug. 15 with Labrador buying construction materials for the house.The bodies were recovered last Aug. 21. The police noticed that the family’s tablet and camera were missing.
Virginia’s British husband and her mother were present during the filing of the case.