2 mistaken for communist rebs freed after 17 months in jail

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Mar 20): 2 mistaken for communist rebs freed after 17 months in jail

Crying and wailing, Lourdes Quioc, 65, and Reynaldo Ingal, 64, were reunited with their families on Friday after spending 17 months at the Bulacan provincial jail in the City of Malolos for a murder they did not commit.

The two were freed by Judge Corazon Domingo-Rañola, of the Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 10, who dismissed the murder and frustrated murder charges meant for suspected Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leaders Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio following an ambush on Army soldiers in 2004.

Quioc and Ingal were mistaken for Magpantay and Topacio when they were arrested in Barangay Tinajero in Mexico town on Oct. 1, 2015.

 The grandchildren, children and neighbors of Quioc and Ingal welcomed them at the house of their relative, provincial board member Teddy Tumang.

Ingal, who said jail time had traumatized him, retired in 2009 as a driver of the National Power Corporation’s Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in Morong town in Bataan province.

Quioc said she was eager to resume her tasks at the parish pastoral council in Mexico town.
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