Second frame-up?
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From indications and statements made by Justice chief Leila Benitez, it is still Hubert Webb and company who are still the prime suspects in her reinvestigation of the Vizconde murder case.
Even as she told reporters yesterday that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the central bank found the passport of Webb to be genuine, along with the marks of departure and arrival stamps, she nevertheless injected yet another doubt, saying that even if the passport is genuine, it still does not mean that it was Hubert who left for the US, intimating that it was someone else — perhaps in the Webb family, like his brother, then saying that Webb is not yet off the hook.
As she put it: The passport cannot be used as evidence to prove Webb’s innocence, as someone else may have used it.
“The passport may be authentic but was he the one who really used it? Did he really leave the country? We don’t know and that would be the next task of the task force,” she pointed out.
Just what is De Lima trying to obtain, evidence against Hubert Webb? But even her so-called evidence can’t be used against Hubert, since he has already been acquitted by the Supreme Court, along with his co-accused.
But perhaps the reason for the focus on Hubert as the prime suspect is that she and her agency, the NBI, do not want to admit that the NBI, as an institution, along with some of the agents who are still there, framed Webb and his co-accused with the false testimony of their agent, Jessica Alfaro.
The fact is, even if there is a new leadership in both the Justice department and in the NBI, this still does not detract from the fact that the NBI is known to manufacture witnesses who perjure, and come up too with fabricated evidence, which probably explains why the NBI made too many excuses in the alleged loss of the semen sample taken from the rape victim. Perhaps the NBI had already found out that the DNA didn’t match Webb’s.
One wonders why De Lima and her NBI continue to focus on Webb as the prime suspect, when there were two other groups that were pointed to as suspects, and with even one group confessing to the rape and murder of the Vizcondes.
There has been nothing, but nothing, said by De Lima and her NBI on their findings of these two other groups. All they come up with during briefings with reporters are still focused on Webb as the rapist and murderer.
De Lima knows she has very little time left for that probe and for her to file a case against suspects since the prescription period is set to lapse this month.
As she said: “We are beginning our countdown before the prescription period for the crime lapses... we cannot divulge the details yet. What is worth noting is that experts had proven that Hubert Webb’s passport was not fake.”
Why then inject that doubt over who really left with Webb’s passport?
This is pretty suspicious, because she and her NBI, if they have really gone through a thorough investigation, would certainly have known that there were not only pictures of Hubert in the US, but also witnesses to substantiate his claim that he was in the US at the time of the murder.
Apart from which, there are already those documents from US immigration, attesting to Webb’s entry into and exit from the US.
Besides, even just reading through the SC decision acquitting Webb and his co-accused, it is a very logical conclusion to acquit Webb as everything Alfaro, who was an NBI agent, testified to, was primed by the NBI.
De Lima also says that she and her probers had a breakthrough, which would be the third breakthrough that she has announced without giving any details, except that now, she says there is a witness who is credible and has passed the lie detector test, which incidentally, carries no weight by way of evidence.
What it looks like is that De Lima and her NBI, perhaps knowing that they can’t solve the murder case by the end of the month, prefer take the easy way out, by again pinning the murder on Webb.
That’s being no better than the old NBI and Justice department.
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