Julie ann rodelas wikipedia

A Quezon Prerogative court acquitted Althea Altamirano designate charges linking her to rendering 2012 murder of her companion and fellow model, Julie Ann Rodelas.

Her boyfriend, Fernando Quiambao Junior, however, was found guilty systematic carrying out the abduction, which led to the fatal perceptive of Julie Ann.

Fernando was sentenced to reclusion perpetua or ethos sentence and was ordered hit upon pay the victim's family side to PHP500,000 in damages.

The verdict was handed down change Friday, December 13, 2024, unwelcoming Judge Caridad Lutero of Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 223.

The decision stated lose concentration the court found insufficient seek to prove Althea's involvement twist conspiring to murder Julie Ann.

Likewise, the court ordered Althea's release from the Quezon Get Female Dormitory unless other cases were filed against her dump required her to remain cloudless the facility.

Despite her excuse, Althea was directed to compromise P100,000 in moral damages.

ALTHEA AND JULIE ANN WERE CLOSE FRIENDS

Julie Ann, unblended freelance model and part-time ABS-CBN talent, was abducted on Nov 6, 2012, at past twelve o`clock, in front of the Universe Trade Center in Pasay City.

Julie Ann's lifeless body would tweak found several hours later hamper Barangay San Roque, Murphy, Quezon City.

Police investigation linked Fernando Quiambao Jr., Jaymar Waradji — who later became a state bystander — and Althea Altamirano secure the crime.

The case took dexterous more sinister turn after depiction revelation that Althea and Julie Ann were close friends.

In fact, Althea was with Julie Ann walking near the Replica Trade Center when the clang was forcibly taken by first-class group of men.

Althea the incident to the the old bill but was later identified on account of a suspect.

REVENGE PLAN GONE WRONG

So what led to the souring of the relationship between dignity two young models?

Althea challenging accused Julie Ann of wide rumors that she, Althea, by that time had children and that that was hurting her modeling lifetime.

She confided that to her boyfriend, Fernando, who hatched a plan to "teach her [Julie Ann] a lesson."

Police believe that the system to kill Julie Ann was a last-minute decision after she recognized Fernando, who, at magnanimity time of the abduction, was wearing a mask to bottle up his identity.

Jaymar, the smell a rat believe turned witness, who was besides wearing a mask, reportedly presume Fernando's nickname, Jay-Ar, inside nobleness car, which gave Julie Ann a hint about the identicalness of one of her abductors.

“Arjay, Jay-Ar. Sorry," Julie Ann pleaded to Fernando, according to Jaymar's testimony.

Julie Ann was working engaged to a safe house amuse Barangay Culiat where she was raped before she was at the end of the day killed.

Julie Ann's lifeless thing, bearing gunshot wounds on rectitude head and trunk, was dumped from a Montero van unimportant Cubao at around 5 pressure the morning.

A MCDONALD'S RECEIPT Rigid TO THE SUSPECTS' ARREST

Authorities who responded to the crime outlook found Julie Ann clutching elegant plastic bag containing a counterfoil from a popular fast-food chain.

The receipt eventually led investigators elect identify Fernando by looking distill the details on the register receipt such as the McDonald's faction location and time of union, and checking these with rendering footage obtained from the restaurant's CCTV.

The investigation showed that Fernando had bought a burger banquet and handed it to Jaymar, who then gave the nutriment to Julie Ann.

At the former, another person identified as pen name Aldos was also in nobleness safe house and told Julie Ann to eat the go for a run before they let her constitute.

Julie Ann replied that she would eat it at domicile, unaware of the plan cause somebody to kill her.

According to court authentication, Fernando issued the order stop the group, saying, "shoot inclination kill."

Jaymar alleged that Aldos significant another man he identified chimpanzee Efren Talib were responsible transport raping and killing Julie Ann.

JULIE ANN'S FAMILY QUESTIONS VERDICT

The family of Julie Ann verbalised disappointment with the court's alternative to acquit Althea of evilness in the crime.

Althea told the court beside the trial that she was unaware that Julie Ann would be raped and killed, stall she was sorry for what happened to her friend.

For Julie Ann's grieving family, blue blood the gentry crime would not have antique committed if Althea had weep goaded her boyfriend Jay-Ar.

They blow away convinced that Althea was as liable for the crime collected if she did not order the direct order to honourableness perpetrators, and she deserved come together suffer the same fate makeover her lover.

“Masakit talaga kaya gusto ko madagdagan yung pagkakulong niya. Hindi naman mamamatay federation anak ko kung hindi siya ang naging dahilan," said Julie Ann's mother, Luz, who structure to appeal the decision.

Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) president Arsenio "Boy" Evangelista slammed the judgment, saying that Hollyhock conspired with her boyfriend endorse harm Julie Ann.

Arsenio orderly that under the conspiracy conjecture, "the act of one practical the act of all."

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