MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) Pardoned murder convict Claudio Teehankee Jr. secretly left his temporary home inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) compound in Muntinlupa City around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the prison chaplain told journalists who had been staking out the facility for hours.

Fr. Robert Olaguer said Teehankee was whisked away in a motorcycle parked outside the rear wall of the infamous home of another prominent pardoned convict, former congressman Romeo Jalosjos.

The priest said just before this, some men arrived in a red Isuzu pickup truck with government license plate SEW 750, which parked behind the NBP chapel. The men then got down and broke open a hole in the decorated rear wall of the Jalosjos home, large enough for the almost 70-year old Teehankee to slip through.

A resident of the NBP compound, who asked not to be named, said Teehankee, dressed in a brown shirt and short pants “and carrying nothing with him,” left his temporary home where he had been staying since his release from jail over the weekend.

This was also confirmed by a taxi driver who saw one “aging man” wearing shorts and another man wearing jeans “and texting” slip through the woods.

Teehankee then allegedly got onboard the motorcycle, which two reporters, including INQUIRER.net, who had been hoping for an interview with the pardoned convict, caught a glimpse of as it sped away.

Before Teehankee left, the NBP resident said he had asked the man driving the motorcycle where he was taking the pardoned killer and was told “to a safe place.”

Caretakers of the Jalosjos home will reportedly clean the place early morning Thursday to prove Teehankee was no longer inside.

Teehankee, who was convicted of the 1991 killing of teenager Maureen Hultman and her friend, Roland John Chapman, and wounding another friend, has been granted executive clemency by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The Hultman family has been angered by Teehankee’s pardon, which they said they were never informed about.