Bacolod City Police Station 7 commander, Chief Insp. Levy Pangue, said he and his men will undergo polygraph tests to prove that they did not torture the former Overseas Filipino Worker who jumped from the third floor of the Hall of Justice Building last week.

Pangue was reacting to the complaint of the partner of Hector Tomaro Villarosa, Esmeralda, who claimed that he was manhandled by the policemen prompting him to commit suicide.

She said her husband had second degree burns on both arms, based on the autopsy report conducted by Bacolod City Medico legal Officer Ely Cong.

“She (Esmeralda) was here on Wednesday before her husband jumped from the Hall of Justice, how come he did not complain then?” Pangue asked.

“There is no way that he was tortured because the policemen brought their colleague, PO1 Antonio Jimeno, whom Villarosa had stabbed in the patrol car on the way to the police station, to the hospital,” Pangue said.

Bacolod City Police Office Director Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz said he cannot order an investigation on the claims of Villarosa’s partner, as formal complaints has been filed.

On Tuesday, the Bacolod City Police Investigation and Detective Management Branch exonerated from all liabilities the three police escorts of Villarosa at the time he jumped from the hall of justice.

The IDMB stressed that Senior Police Officer 1 James Augustus Velasco, Police Officers 3 Genvie Gendran and Evanz Diaz of Police Station 7 did their duties and were not remiss in performing them.

Villarosa was apprehended on the night of October 30 on the complaints of his mother-in-law, Teresita Bagiou, who claimed that he choked her.*APN

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