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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 (Philippines)

‘Guilty.’ SPO1 Marcial Ocampo (tightly guarded, and wiping his face) and relatives of victim Jojo de la Victoria.(Sun.star photos/Amper Campaña) The only way a policeman could have avoided imprisonment in the Elpidio dela Victoria case was for the defense to present someone who “looks, walks and moves” like him, a judge said. SPO1 Marcial Ocampo was sentenced yesterday to spend 20 to 40 years in jail for the murder of the Cebu City Bantay Dagat commissioner. Ocampo was also ordered to pay the victim’s family P900,000—P500,000 as moral damages, P300,000 as exemplary damages and P100,000 in civil indemnity. [full story]