Former Bohol Board Member Rey Niño Boniel pleaded guilty to killing his wife, Bohol Mayor Gisela Boniel. Four others admitted the involvement in the slaying of the town mayor during a hearing in the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 70 in Lapu-Lapu City under a plea bargaining deal.
Boniel and four other confessed on the stand that he had killed his wife confirming the pieces of evidence recovered against him.
According to a prosecutor, Niño was sentenced to eight years and 1 day to 14 years imprisonment. He will also facing separate cases of kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
Roilito Boniel, a cousin of Niño, earlier testified that he saw the former board member shoot the victim in the head before dumping her body in the water off Cuabian Island in Cebu.
"The suspects finally confessed to the killing of former Mayor Gisela Boniel. Former Board Member Rey Niño Boniel pleaded guilty. But since he pleaded guilty before the prosecution, the state prosecutor agreed to the accused pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of homicide," said the legal counsel of the late mayor’s family.
Mayor Gisela's death had been making headlines since she was reported missing on June 2017.
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