Pinoy 'friend' admits killing Pinay found dead inside her luxury car in UAE

A Filipino "family friend" admitted to killing a Filipina whose body was found inside her luxury car in the Sharjah area in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last weekend.

 

Ricardo Bechavez confessed to the killing of 51-year-old businesswoman Lorna Lim Varona, the news site Khaleej Times reported on Monday.

 

On Sunday, police investigators informed Lorna's husband Pablo that Bechavez, arrested the day before, had confessed to the crime.

 

On Saturday, the police found Varona's body in a pool of blood inside the trunk of her Jaguar abandoned near Industrial Area Number 11 in Sharjah, a week after she went missing.

Suspicious  

The report said Lorna's husband Pablo felt something serious could have happened when his wife did not return home. He told the police that he suspected Bechavez had something to do with his wife going missing.

 

Pablo, a manager in the UAE, said the suspect was a long-time family friend. Pablo said Lorna told him that she would meet someone who would pay the Dh250,000 Bechavez had borrowed from her. Bechavez had also asked Lorna to release his passport, which she kept as a guarantee. A successful businesswoman

 

At the time of her death, Lorna was managing four family’s companies — Seaworld Tourism, Capricorn Trading, Capricorn Documentation and Pro Team.

 

She owned the Capricorn Bakery but sold it when she decided to take up other businesses. She and her husband have four grown children: Maria Liza, Maria Lourdes, Joseph Luke, and Joseph Louis.

 

The Khaleej Times report said many Filipinos in the business circle, who benefited from Lorna's charity works, miss her.

 

Jun Tupas, a close friend of her husband, described Lorna as a professional business woman with a kind heart for children.

 

Khaleej Times quoted Pablo as saying the family wanted to take Lorna’s body to Manila at the soonest possible time but the police asked them to wait until the investigation is finished. - VVP, GMA News