May we kindly reply to Ramon Tulfo’s column “My Christmas wish” (Metro, 12/21/15).
In that column, he, in effect, rehashes his oft-repeated charges—ad nauseam—that we are unduly persecuting the accused Navy officers and men for the slaying of Ensign Phillip Pestaño in 1995.
Tulfo probably does not know that the evidence we had introduced at the Senate investigation of the case, and to the Ombudsman, especially on the trajectory of the killer bullet, demonstrates that Ensign Pestaño did not kill himself.
Included in the mass of evidence that was introduced in the preliminary investigations of the case is that the scar on the wrist of Ensign Pestaño was no evidence of any self-inflicted wound but of a minor accident for which he got a reasonable medical treatment.
Incidentally, our version of the nature of that slight wound that scarred the wrist of Ensign Pestaño is backed not only by a friend of Pestaño who helped him get medical care but also by the doctor who treated him.
We hope that Tulfo would cease peddling tall tales regarding the case, and let the law take its course through the Court where the case is now pending trial after it had lain inert for many long years in the hands of certain government investigators.
It is in court—not in the column of Tulfo—that we hope justice will be done soon not only to the Pestaño family, but also to the accused.
—AQUILINO PIMENTEL JR., counsel of the Pestaño family, Gana, Manlangit Law Office, Paseo de Magallanes, Makati City