ILOILO CITY—A Regional Trial Court in Aklan has sentenced a German national to 40 years in jail for the 2008 rape and killing of a Filipina entertainer on Boracay Island.

In an order issued on March 31, Judge Virgilio Paman, of the Kalibo RTC Branch 7, found Adolf Christian Wintterer guilty of raping and killing Mylene de la Rosa.

The court also ordered him transferred to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) detention center in the capital town of Kalibo.

Dela Rosa, 29, mother of five, was found dead at dawn on March 7, 2008, in Barangay Yapak at the northern end of the 1,032-hectare Boracay Island. Her remains bore signs of rape, beating wounds mostly in the head and cigarette burns.

Wintterer, 45, was arrested hours after Dela Rosa’s remains were found. A Boracay resident testified that he saw the victim and Wintterer at the Cocomangas Bar and Disco the night before she was found dead. The witness testified that he saw Wintterer slap Dela Rosa and overheard him say: “I will kill you later.”