Jail warden: Woman who shot husband 'hears voices'

MANILA, Philippines - The woman who reportedly shot dead her husband in a Quezon City mall should be brought to the National Center for Mental Health because she claims to hear voices, according to a jail official.

Shella Macapugay is currently detained at the Quezon City Female Dormitory but jail warden Superintendent Milet Batac, in a letter dated Sept. 28, told the court hearing her case that the “accused was observed to be at all times claiming that she heard different voices.”

Macapugay is facing murder and parricide charges before the Regional Trial Court Branch 219 for killing her husband Abel, whom she accused of keeping a mistress; and a jail guard who tried to stop her from killing herself.

Macapugay was examined by a jail psychologist, to whom she said she had been hearing male voices, like that of her husband.

Macapugay also claimed she had bouts of depression in July 2010, when she was beaten up by her husband.