PHILIPPINES: MANILA COURT FINDS 16 MILITARY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS GUILTY OF 1983 MURDER OF PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO'S HUSBAND BENIGNO
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PHILIPPINES: MANILA COURT FINDS 16 MILITARY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS GUILTY OF 1983 MURDER OF PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO'S HUSBAND BENIGNO
- Title: PHILIPPINES: MANILA COURT FINDS 16 MILITARY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS GUILTY OF 1983 MURDER OF PRESIDENT CORAZON AQUINO'S HUSBAND BENIGNO
- Date: 28th September 1990
- Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (SEPTEMBER 28, 1990) 1. GV COURTROOM 0.03 2. CUS/GV CLERK READING OUT (ENGLISH SOT) VERDICTS AS COURTROOM LISTEN (4 SHOTS) 0.18 3. GV JUDGE RISES AND COURTROOM EMPTIES 0.22 4. CU WOMAN EMBRACES MAN IN COURT 0.26 5. CU WEEPING MILITARY OFFICERS 0.30 6. CU WOMAN EMBRACES MAN 0.32 7. CU CUSTODIO LEAVES IN WHEELCHAIR 0.35 8. CU CUSTODIO SPEAKING (ENGLISH SOT) PRIOR TO VERDICT 0.42 9. CU AQUINO-ORETA SPEAKING (ENGLISH SOT) 0.52 10. GV ACCUSED AND ACQUITTED LEAVE COURT BUILDING 0.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 13th October 1990 13:00
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- Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- Country: Philippines
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVACCPBSY9JC8S47TU87TMQOWGVQ
- Story Text: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
A Manila court on Friday (September 28) found 16 military officers and soldiers guilty of the 1983 murder of President Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno.All were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The court ordered the three officers and 13 soldiers convicted, to pay 302,000 US dollars (7.8 million pesos) in damages to the Aquino family.Twenty other accused of the murder, including congressman and former minister Jose Aspiras, were acquitted.
Among the convicted was Brigadier General Luther Custodio, then head of the Philippine Air Force Security Command, who was responsible for airport security when the opposition leader returned from exile to Manila airport, where he was shot on the tarmac.
Custodio, who is seriously ill with cancer, was brought to court in an ambulance and sat in a wheelchair for the verdict."God knows I'm innocent," he told the court.
Speaking to reporters outside the heavily guarded courthouse Congresswoman Teresita Aquino-Oreta, Benigno's sister, said she wanted to know whose orders the convicted men had been following.
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