Raps vs actress' husband over road death dropped

ANGELES CITY, Philippines – Police withdrew yesterday charges of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide filed against the husband of actress Sunshine Dizon after the two children of the Badjao grandmother, who was fatally hit by his car here Monday night, agreed to amicably settle the case.

City information officer Deo Sambilay, however, said Dizon’s husband John Timothy Tan still spent four hours at the Traffic Enforcement and Management Unit’s detention center at the city hall compound, until around 3 a.m. Tuesday when the children of the victim, Joara Alidane Jiantan, 60, issued an affidavit of desistance.

TEMU chief Senior Superintendent Alan Lingat said Jiantan, a Badjao from Jolo, Sulu, apparently arrived here earlier this year with some of her children to beg during the Christmas holidays.

Jiantan and her children had been staying at a makeshift house near a bridge at Hensonville Subdivision in Barangay Malabanias here.

Lingat said Tan was allowed to talk to two of the victim’s children, Ali Husman Jiantan and Indang Aligdena Jiantan, at the TEMU headquarters to convince them to agree to an amicable settlement that would lead to the dropping of the criminal charge against him.

While the affidavit was written in English which the victim’s children were reportedly not familiar with, Sambilay said they were assisted by a councilman of Barangay Malabanias in negotiating with Tan.