Her report was also more conclusive than an earlier autopsy by the National Bureau of Investigation, which did not give a specific cause of death and found “no apparent signs of external physical injury” on the body.
Asked later who this informant was, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, who joined Fortun at Saturday’s briefing, pointed to an unnamed Bilibid inmate. The pathologist earlier raised doubts about the results of the first autopsy because it lacked basic details, such as the cause of death and a clear timeline of the procedures done on the body.Her other pertinent findings were complications in the lungs and schistosomiasis of the liver, a parasitic disease.Similar to the NBI’s findings, Fortun’s report found no “significant injuries,” whether internal or external, on the body.
“The presence of methamphetamine is a factor that you should [take] note. The rumors that there’s ‘shabu’ inside Bilibid are confirmed by the fact that a person who died has ‘shabu’ or methamphetamine in his system,” he said. “You know these people die of noncommunicable diseases as well. Wouldn’t you want to check the jails? We don’t want our inmates to be dying,” she said.With the new set of findings, Remulla declared that the Mabasa case was in the “last phase of the investigation,” as authorities were training their sights on “two masterminds,” whom he refused to name on Saturday.
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