Tabuk City, Kalinga – One of the gunmen responsible for the death of then Judge Milnar Lammawin of the Regional Trial Court Branch in Kalinga was found guilty of murder by the RTC Branch 25.
The verdict came after 17 years and 5 months of the killing.
Presiding Judge Jerson Angog on January 22, 2022 signed the decision stating that the accused Wilfredo Signabon alias Yolly is guilty “beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of murder defined under Article 248 of the Revised Penal Code”.
Signabon was “sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua without eligibility of parole.”
On August 09, 2004 at around 6 o’clock in the evening, Lammawin was gunned down by two men in front of the Gramps’s Bakery located at Magsaysay, Tabuk City, Kalinga.
He was pronounced dead around 10 in the evening at the Almora General Hospital from multiple gunshot wounds to his brain stem, left face, left neck, left nape, right elbow, left arm, left and right leg causing cardiac failure and brain death which resulted to his demise.
Signabon and a certain Bennit Wandag, according to police investigation, were identified by witnesses during the day of the shooting. A Peter Lingbawan and three others tagged as John Does were also suspected of the killing. Only Signabon was arrested while the others accused are still at large.
The RTC 25 decision stated that during trial Signabon pleaded that he was not guilty but “miserably failed to substantiate his claim of alibi.”
He is also ordered to pay the heirs of Lammawin a P100,000.00 civil indemnity, P100,000.00 for moral damages, another P100,000.00 for exemplary damages and P50,000.00 for temperate damages.
“He is also ordered to pay interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the time of finality of this decision until fully paid, to be imposed on the civil indemnity, moral damages, exemplary damages and temperate damages,” the RTC decision furthered.
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