MANILA (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine on Monday admitted in court choking, but not killing, a Filipino transgender in self-defence in a case that could test the strength of security ties between the Philippines and the United States.
Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who is being held at a U.S. facility at the main army base in Manila, has been charged with the murder of Jeffrey Laude, who was found dead on Oct. 11 last year in a seedy hotel in Olongapo City, near a former U.S. naval base north of Manila.
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