Filipinos especially the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are known for their outstanding compassion to others, nonetheless with their compatriot or fellow Filipinos when they are outside the country or on their work abroad. They extend help to fellow OFWs who needed it and every OFWs somehow feel safe when they know that there OFWs around.
Sometimes, unfortunate things happen that a compatriot will cause you trouble or worse, try to kill you.
Sometimes, unfortunate things happen that a compatriot will cause you trouble or worse, try to kill you.
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Two OFWs who are working as a waiters have been accused of trying to kill a man, who was trying to defend a friend over stalking a woman in an elevator.
A Filipino man and his two Filipina women were said to have visited their friend at his residence in May one night where they spent some time and left the place at around 4am.
Shortly on their way out, the three Filipinos returned back to the flat and claimed to their friend, according to records, that their two countrymen waiters, aged 32 and 33, had attacked them in the lift.
The Filipino man accompanied his three friends outside and when he confronted the suspects, the two waiters assaulted them again.
Then the 33-year-old waiter cornered the man and the 32-year-old took a knife and stabbed him twice although he had tried to block the assault and protect himself with a bottle.
The suspect was arrested by the police authorities while the victim was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
According to the charges sheet, prosecutors said the 33-year-old cornered his countryman meanwhile the 32-year-old stabbed him in his shoulder and belly, and therefore charged with attempted murder. The suspects pleaded not guilty.
“I acted in self-defense. He attacked me first and I defended myself,” argued the 32-year-old as he refuted his accusation before presiding judge Mohammad Jamal.
The stabbed Filipino testified to prosecutors: “My friends came to visit me and when they walked out at 4am, they returned a few minutes later. They told me that the two suspects had assaulted them. When I went out with them to check what had happened, I had a fight with them. They stabbed me with a knife and tried to kill me.”
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The Filipino man [who was visiting his friend] claimed to prosecutors: “I fought with the suspects and they assaulted me because they had stalked and harassed my girlfriend [one of the two women who accompanied him] at the elevator.”
Presiding judge Jamal will hand out a judgment on November 13.
Filed under the category of Filipinos, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), work abroad
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