(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of a primary suspect in the killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo for his fellow policeman to be stopped from testifying in court.
In junking SP03 Ricky Sta. Isabel’s plea for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction on a Pampanga court’s order allowing SP04 Roy Villegas to be discharged as state witness, the 13th Division said he failed to “sufficiently establish the alleged grave and irreparable injury he stands to suffer” if Villegas indeed testified before the court, where charges in connection with Jee’s death in 2016 were filed.
The appeals court ordered all parties to comment within 10 days from notice before it could delve into the merits.
Jee was abducted from his Angeles City home on October 18.
He was strangled to death inside the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
