2nd high-profile inmate killed in prison

The New Bilibid Prison. INQUIRER File Photo.

Tony Co is the second Chinese drug lord killed inside the prison in a span of one and a half months.

Co was killed after he was stabbed by a fellow inmate in a riot that ensued inside Building 14 on Wednesday.

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Last Aug. 13, Li Alan Yan alias Jackson Dy, one of the biggest drug trader operating in the country was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate inside the Davao Penal and Prison Farm (DPPF). He was one of the three Chinese inmates killed.

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A source said Yan had links to Bilibid inmates and managed to continue drug transactions outside prison.

He was among the inmates transferred to other penal institutions operated by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) during the time of former Justice Secretary and now Senator Leila de Lima as a way to stop illegal drug transactions inside the national penitentiary.

In February 2013, Yan was snatched by armed men while on his way to a court hearing. Members of the Ozamis robbery-holdup gang helped in Yan’s escape.

Yan was rearrested July of that year in his hideout in Little Baguio, San Juan. Authorities recovered two sacks of shabu in his house. RAM