Judge visits Guadalupe scene of crime

WHERE is cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr.?

Two warrants of arrest have been issued against but law enforcement agencies have yet to locate and arrest the supreme master of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association.

Prosecution lawyers in the parricide case against Ecleo yesterday urged him anew to surrender.

“If he is not guilty, he (Ecleo) should surrender,” said lawyer Kit Enriquez in an interview.

Enriquez and prosecution lawyer Alfredo Sipalay attended the court’s ocular inspection of Ecleo’s residence at Forest Hills Subdivision in Guadalupe, Cebu City.

Defense lawyer Orlando Salatandre was also present.

Ecleo was represented by his sister Gwendolyn, mayor of Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte province.

The victim’s brother Josebil described the house when his sister Alona was killed.

Josebil said he heard a thud and his sister pleading for help in the evening of Jan. 5, 2002.

Josebil was at the second floor of an annex located at the back of the main house where Ecleo and his wife stayed. /Reporter Ador Vincent S. Mayol