The specter of landing in prison may have driven a 47-year-old man to commit suicide by hanging himself in his house in barangay Cogon, Dumanjug town, southern Cebu.
Police identified the fatality as Mariano Lisondra.
The man had earlier told his friends in a drinking session that he would commit suicide after his live-in partner filed charges against him.
“Puslan man mapriso, maypag mag-hikog (I’d rather kill myself than be imprisoned),” said PO2 Jeffrey Alapas quoting Lisondra as saying during the drinking session.
Alapas said Lisondra and his live-in partner, a certain Mercilda, broke up. The woman is now living with another man, police said.
Last April 28 and 29, Lisondra allegedly sent defamatory text messages to the woman, said Alapas.
The woman then filed a case against Lisondra and demanded P200,000 as moral damages.
“Ang suspetsa namo kay nahadlok to siya mapriso tungod sa iyang mga text messages nga gi-send sa bae (We suspected that he was afraid landing in jail because of the text messages he sent to the woman),” Alapas said.
Police said Lisondra went home after drinking with friends around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Fearing that Lisondra would make good his threat of committing suicide, his friends followed him to his house.
It turned out the friends were a little too late as the victim was already hanging from the ceiling when they arrived./With a report by Xavier University Kent A. Ugalde
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