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Christine Dacera's family seeks more CCTV footage, video for 'complete view' —lawyer


The family of Christine Dacera is asking for more CCTV footage that could shed light on her death in a Makati City hotel on New Year's Day, they lawyer said Thursday, adding the ones shown on media reports do not give a complete view of the events that took place.

"We are also asking for additional footages from different angles of the hotel because what the public saw in the social media, in the news items was a view from a particular side in that hotel," lawyer Jose Ledda III told ANC in an interview.

"Our position right now is that for us to have a complete view and an even deeper understanding of what transpired during those times, we must be provided with CCTV footages that are not exclusive in that particular angle," he added.

Ledda was referring to CCTV footage showing Dacera kissing a guy in the corridor of the hotel. He said the footage does not affect the case as it only shows one angle.

Asked if the family still agrees with the police that Dacera was raped prior to her death, Ledda answered in the affirmative. He said the autopsy report, which states that Dacera died of ruptured aortic aneurysm, did not dispute the possibility that force and intimidation were used against her.

"Even if it states that the cause of death was due to aneurysm, it also does not dispute the fact that there may have been a possibility that we still do not know yet that force and intimidation were used during those times," Ledda said.

Ledda said the family is also waiting for the result of the victim's alcohol and drug tests.

Further investigation is ongoing on the death of Dacera, 23, who was found lifeless inside a room in City Garden Grand Hotel past noon on January 1, 2021.

Three persons being linked to her death were arrested but later released after the Makati City Prosecutor's Office said the pieces of evidence initially submitted by the police were insufficient in establishing that Dacera was raped.

The evidence were also not enough to prove the exact cause of Dacera's death, whether this was because of the alleged rape, and, if so, whether the respondents were responsible, the prosecutor said. —KBK, GMA News

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