Manila, Feb. 16 -- Former Catanduanes policeman Vincent Tacorda, who initially confessed and later retracted his statement of killing 54-year-old Catanduanes-based newspaper publisher Larry Sy Que, was found guilty in a separate case of frustrated murder.
In an 11-page verdict released on Friday (February 14), Virac Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 42 Presiding Judge Genie G. Gapas-Agbada convicted Tacorda in the attempted murder of Samuel Rojas, Department of Education (DepEd) personnel in San Jose, Viga. Rojas was shot by Tacorda on August 16, 2016, inflicting a gunshot wound in the middle of his spinal column but survived the attack.
Fearing that Tacorda might recant his statement on killing Que, the Presidential Task Force on Media S...