MANILA: The killers of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr will not spend a single day behind bars, President Rodrigo Duterte declared, in a move that may encourage more extrajudicial killings in his brutal war on drugs.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed murder complaints against 24 Philippine policemen after a probe showed they shot to death a helpless Espinosa in his cell and another inmate in a raid on a Leyte prison early on Nov 5.
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