Ten years after his wife was murdered, Philippine cult leader Ruben Ecleo was found guilty of parricide and sentenced to reclusion perpetua, or at least 30 years’ imprisonment.
The former congressman who earlier this year was also sentenced to 31 years in jail for graft is missing.
The Philippines Supreme Court has denied with finality the appeal of Dinagat Islands Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. seeking to reverse the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court’s 2006 ruling convicting him and two other people of graft and sending them to 31 years in prison.
Ecleo still faces an often-delayed trial on charges that he committed parricide by murdering his wife Alona in January, 2002.
A court in the Philippines has reconfrmed the validity of an arrest warrant for cult leader and politician Ruben Ecleo Jr.
In October 2006 Ecleo was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison on graft charges. The cult leader still faces a trial in the murder of his wife.
The Sandiganbayan — a special court in the Philippines — has ordered the arrest of cult leader — and Congress member — Ruben Ecleo and two others after the Supreme Court dismissed their motion to overturn their conviction on graft charges, the Philippine Daily Inquirer writes.
Cult leader and parricide suspect Ruben Ecleo Jr. snubbed the resumption of his seven-year controversial parricide case in Cebu, citing health reasons for his failure to show up in court on Wednesday.
Ecleo is charged for the brutal death of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo and has put up a P1 million bail for his temporary liberty, citing his worsening health condition as a reason.
Ecleo, the supreme leader of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association and a former mayor of San Jose town in Dinagat Island in Surigao del Norte, is on trial in connection with the killing of his wife, at the time a medical student at one of the local universities in Cebu.
The Sandiganbayan sentenced cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. to 30 years in prison for entering into an anomalous contract in 1993 where the government incurred about P2.4 million in losses.
CEBU CITY — A cardiologist has testified in court that controversial cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. is fit to go back to jail, citing his medical findings that the supreme master of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association has no significant heart disease. Private prosecutors on Thursday presented Dr. Generoso Matiga, an internist specializing in cardiology from the Perpetual Succor Hospital, to testify on his findings after being asked by Regional Trial Court Judge Geraldine Econg to conduct medical examinations on Ecleo. Ecleo, who is facing a parricide case after being accused of killing his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo in January 2002,
CEBU CITY – A lady Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge handling the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. readmitted last Tuesday three of the pieces of evidence she had earlier junked as they were deemed “inadmissible as evidence.” RTC Judge Geraldine Faith Econg said the three items were important to the prosecution’s effort to identify the cadaver found in Dalaguete town in southern Cebu. The prosecution panel is establishing that the cadaver was that of Ecleo’s wife, Alona. The three items included a shower curtain with bloodstains, one bloodied black garbage bag, and a big plastic garbage bag.
Prosecutors handling Ecleo case suffer big blow as PNP fails to identify cadaver CEBU CITY — In what was seen as a big blow to the prosecutors handling the parricide case against Ruben Ecleo Jr., the medico-legal officer of the Philippine National Police (PNP) told the court that the samples taken from the alleged cadaver of Ecleo’s wife did not yield any DNA profile. Chief Inspector Francisco Supe Jr. said the taking of blood samples from a minor son of Ecleo may no longer be necessary in light of the successive and continuous failure to yield DNA profile from the