DOJ chief: Insanity plea unlikely to save Hayden

MANILA, Philippines - An insanity claim is not likely to save celebrity doctor Hayden Kho from charges over the uploading on the Internet of his sex video with actress-model Katrina Halili, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said Friday. Gonzalez said Kho would have to come up with much more if he expects to defend himself from the complaint lodged against him before the National Bureau of Investigation. “That kind of a defense or insanity will not hold water dito," he said in an interview on dzXL radio, when asked about Kho’s possible defense of insanity. Kho’s former girlfriend, cosmetic surgeon Victoria “Vicki" Belo, had said she had let Kho undergo “professional counseling." The NBI has summoned Kho and Belo for questioning over the complaint Halili filed last Wednesday. On the other hand, a lawmaker assailed Kho for his act, likening him to the A(H1N1) virus that causes “swine flu." In his radio program, Makati City Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. said it was Halili, and not a 10-year-old girl, who is the first confirmed victim of swine flu in the Philippines. “The newspapers have it wrong. The first victim of swine flu Filipino is not that 10-year-old girl. Apparently it is Katrina kasi sinabi niya binaboy ako [because she said she was a victim of a swine]," Locsin said in his program on dwIZ radio. - GMANews.TV