Pinay killed in Melbourne will be home on Friday

The Filipino woman murdered in Melbourne, Australia last December will be brought home on Friday, according to Claro de Castro Jr, chief of the Interpol division of the National Bureau of Investigation. The battered body of Luvina Dayang, 50, was found wrapped in a bag in a frontyard in Springvale on Dec. 12. She left her husband and five children in Sabang, Baliuag, Bulacan on July 9, 2006 to work as a cleaner in Sydney. She was on a tourist visa that expired three months later. Danilo Miranda Guingab, 43, an Australian national of Filipino ancestry residing in Point Cook, was arrested last Monday, and presented in court the same day with a murder charge in the killing of Dayang. Dayang traveled to Melbourne by bus two days before her body was found dumped in the frontyard of a house on View Road in Springvale. De Castro said the Victoria Police Homicide Squad in Melbourne reported the incident to the NBI. Guingab is said to be a naturalized Australian citizen of Filipino descent who worked as a nurse and living for 20 years in Australia with his wife and four children. De Castro said Guingab was previously booked with the Victoria Police Criminal Records for domestic violence and road traffic offenses. Among the forensic evidence gathered by Australian authorities at the crime scene include the garbage bag used to cover Dayang's body and found in Guingab's house, rope, DNA test, and blood found at the rear shed of his house and believed to be the victim’s. Reports said Dayang died of strangulation. She also sustained a head injury apparently caused by a blunt object. Following the arrest of Guingab, the Philippine embassy in Australia prepared for the repatriation of Dayang’s body on Feb. 8, de Castro said. Reports said Dayang used to live in a quarter with other Filipinos and other nationalities with expired visas, and thus considered as illegal aliens. Detectives from Victoria and investigators from the Australian Federal Police traveled to the Philippines last month and interviewed members of Dayang’s family. Dayang had been assaulted and police believe she was murdered close to where her body was dumped at View Road. She was last seen on December 11, and the police believed she was murdered late that night, or early the following morning. - GMANews.TV