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Friday, September 15, 2006
Lim set to leave RP
By Ruby P. Silubrico
KIDNAP victim William O. Lim is set to leave the country, three weeks after he was kidnapped by six persons and still leaving the police unable to solve the case.
Regional Police Director Geary Barias, confirmed Thursday that Lim is now in Metro Manila to process his papers for Australia.
Barias said, "The kidnapping case would be left unsolved because the victim is not interested, thus the police cannot file charges against the perpetrators in case we pin them down."
"This would be a big predicament for us. How can we file charges without the victim's affidavit? But the investigation is going in order to solve the case. If we could not arrest them for kidnapping, we will do so using other cases," Barias said.
The Task Force William (TFW) has a list of 20 persons believed to be responsible for the crime. They have pending cases in court for other crimes.
Of the 20, at least six had vital participation in the crime. They are now under surveillance for their possible arrest. Most of them live in central Iloilo.
Lim was kidnapped on the evening of August 29. When he was about to board his card along Ledesma-Quezon Sts., three persons picked him up.
They tied and blindfolded him. When they were traveling towards the outskirts of the city, he heard four different male voices speaking in Kinaray-a.
Lim recounted that they brought him to a sugarcane plantation. He saw flowers beside the house but was not able to see the faces of his abductors, which puzzled the police.
Reports showed that he was brought to Barangay Salihid Barotac Nuevo. Without paying a ransom, he was released four days later in Barangay Tabucan, which is near Salihid.
However, the village chief of Salihid, Jose Bayas denied reports that there was a white Lite Ace van that entered his area during that time.
"I never saw any van enter our area. Maybe some of the residents saw it; I'll ask them," he said.
Bayas admitted that there is a sugarcane plantation in his area.
Sources said that they saw a white van and two other vehicles in Salihid on September 2, the day Lim was released.
(September 15, 2006 issue)
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