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sections
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filipino globe
Volume 2 Issue 6
www.filglobe.com April 2008
Mystery deepens
SECTIONS
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Witnesses come forward with fresh
evidence in bid to reopen probe
Jose Marcelo in Hong Kong
THE STORY SO FAR
Consulate officials are hoping tes-
Filipina witnesses may hold key to the
truth behind Vicenta Flores’ death
timony from new witnesses will
Police have closed the investigation
COMMUNITY
compel the Hong Kong police to dig
after an autopsy showed no signs of
deeper into the mystery surround-
foul play
We start a series
ing the death of a Filipina domestic
The consulate insists there are of heartwarming
helper. questions that remain unanswered
articles on the joys
The witnesses have expressed will-
ingness to give statements to the po-
and travails, hopes
lice that could help shed light on the
who had worked
and dreams of
death of Vicenta Flores, whose body
for the same em-
overseas workers
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was found floating off Tung Chung
ployer for the past
pier on April 11 – four days after she
12 years.
was seen fleeing her employers’ flat
Flores, known
in Discovery Bay barefoot and in pa-
as Vicky among
jamas.
Discovery Bay
The case has been considered
residents, was re-
closed after a post-mortem revealed
ported missing by her employers on
“nothing suspicious” about the inci-
the night of April 8.
dent, but consulate officials remained
Her female employer told police
hopeful that the new testimony will
Flores woke up “very frightened” and
convince police to reopen their inves-
fled the flat.
tigation.
Frantic calls to Flores’ mobile
“These witnesses contacted the
phone by an aunt who also works
TRAVEL
consulate and said they’re willing to
as a maid in Hong Kong were finally
give statements on what they know
answered by her male employer who Birdwatching in
about the deceased,” said vice consul
said the helper “had run away and
Candaba takes off as
Val Roque. “And we’re helping them
disappeared”.
the area is declared
get in touch with the police.
It was also the aunt who identified
“Hopefully this will convince the
Flores’ body at the mortuary through
a sanctuary. It’s your
police to look at other angles of the
a mole on her badly deformed face, ticket to nature’s
case.”
although it was surmised that the in-
incredible bird
The witnesses, Roque said, are
juries could have been caused when
from the same upscale Discovery
the body was washed onto rocks off
theater
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Bay apartment complex as Flores,
Tung Chung pier.
Vicenta Flores’ body was found off Tung Chung pier four days after she
31-year-old and single from Batangas
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 was seen fleeing her employers’ home in Discovery Bay.
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