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Court drops murder charges vs suspect in Ruby Rose slay


A Malabon City court has dropped murder charges against Manuel Montero, the witness in the Mafia-style killing of Ruby Rose Barrameda, sister of former beauty queen and actress Rochelle Barrameda, in 2007. In a ruling dated July 30, Malabon City Regional Trial Court Branch 70 Presiding Judge Zaldy Docena granted the Barramedas' motion asking the court to reconsider its March 19, 2010 ruling where Montero was listed as among the suspects. The March 19 ruling was issued by then Presiding Judge Hector Alameyda, who has already retired. "The motion for reconsideration...is hereby granted and said order of the then acting judge [Alameyda] is thus reconsidered and set aside, and another one is entered ordering the discharge/exclusion of the accused Manuel Montero as an accused," said the Docena's ruling. Last year, Ruby Rose’s body was fished out of Navotas waters inside a cement-sealed steel container. Montero had confessed he was among those who were paid P50,000 each to kill Ruby Rose on March 12, 2007. He surrendered to the police on May 18, 2009 and led investigators to the location of Ruby Rose's remains. He said the order allegedly came from Manuel Jimenez Jr. and his younger brother Lope, a shipping magnate in Navotas City and owner of Buena Suerte Jimenez Fishing and Trading Co., the property where the steel drum containing Ruby Rose's body was found. Manuel Jr. is Ruby Rose's father-in-law. Her husband, Manuel Jimenez III, has been cleared of involvement in the killing. Former Justice secretary Agnes Devanadera also cleared Lope of having a hand in Ruby Rose's gruesome killing. –VVP/KBK, GMANews.TV

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