PRISONER-NOT MAULED

This afernoon, in the office of the local BJMP, Grace Manaya's assistant SJO2 Kirt Pacana told the Observer that prisoner Ronito Labadan was not in any way harmed by guards as reported he was. This was corroborated, Pacana pointed out, with SOCO's findings when the Municipal Health officer at first refused to sign Labadan's death certificate. SOCO reported no foul play, Pacana continued, and that not even a single pinch was found done, he said. Their investigation report says that at that instance, when other inmates noticed Labadan had the hard time breathing, the guards brought him to the nearby hospital but declared dead on arrival(DOA) by the attending physician Dr. Anthea Tamundong. The official report reads, "due to cardio pulmonary arrest secondary to congestive heart failure to coronary artery disease".