CEBU, Philippines - A detainee at the Police Regional Office-7 was found dead hanging inside the detention cell last Wednesday evening.
Zacarias “Karias†Esito, 50, used his short pants to tie his neck on the iron grills of the comfort room inside the detention cell. A fellow detainee found Esito hanging at around 11:00 p.m.
Homicide investigator, SPO1 Ruth Violango, said that Esito’s fellow detainee, Rodillo Noble, was supposed to give him bread when he was found dead.
Esito was an escapee from San Ramon Prison Penal Farm in Zamboanga City. He was arrested on January 12 in Carmen, Bohol by the operatives of the Regional Intelligence Division.
He was supposed to be shipped back to Zamboanga next week where he was convicted for murder. Violango said Esito was one of the three inmates inside the detention cell.
Violango believes that Esito may be afraid to be back in Zamboanga prompting him to commit suicide. (FREEMAN)