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Carjack-slay victim's remains cremated; dad wants death penalty revived


As his son Venson was cremated Saturday, car dealer Arsenio Evangelista made a new call for the revival of the death penalty to deter heinous crimes. Evangelista made the call even as the driver of another carjack-slay victim, Ernani Sencil, was buried in Marikina City on the same day. "I go for the death penalty as a deterrent for this kind of heinous crime. Sobra eh, sobra-sobra ang ginawa sa anak ko (It's too much. What they did to my son was too much)," the elder Evangelista said in an interview aired on QTV-11's Balitanghali newscast.
Earlier on Saturday, relatives and sympathizers wore T-shirts calling for "Justice" for Venson as they left the Loyola Memorial Chapel to St. Peter's Church in Quezon City for the cremation. A report by GMA News' Sandra Aguinaldo said that after the cremation, the Evangelista family and sympathizers proceeded to the Immaculate Conception Church in Cubao. The elder Evangelista also said he is convinced Alfred Mendiola and Batibot Parulan are indeed among his son's killers. He said the the two matched the description of eyewitnesses to the carjacking of Venson's Land Cruiser last Jan. 13. Venson's charred and brutalized body was found in Nueva Ecija a day after he disappeared while on a road test of a Land Cruiser he was selling. "I strongly believe yan ang talagang suspect. Ang basis ko talaga matching ang kinwento ng taong nakakita, nag-witness (I strongly believe those are the suspects. They matched the description of the witnesses)," the elder Evangelista said. Meanwhile, the remains of Ernani Sencil, driver of Emerson Lozano, were buried at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City, according to a report by GMA News' Jam Sisante. Sencil’s charred body was found in Tarlac a day after he and Lozano disappeared Jan. 12 while meeting a prospective buyer of Lozano’s van in Quezon City. The charred body of Lozano was found in Pampanga, while the van he was selling was found burning in a lot in Bataan last Wednesday. Sencil left behind his wife, Evelyn, two daughters, and a son. — LBG, GMANews.TV

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