The wife of the slain Malaysian, who was suspected to be an operative of the terror network Jema’ah Islamiya, has been charged by the city prosecutor but remained detained at the holding cell of the Davao City police. Senior Supt. Ronald de la Rosa, city police chief, said that Anabelle Nieva Lee, 40, has been charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
Prosecutor Carlos Castaños Jr. filed the charge after finding probable cause because the evidence submitted by government agents indicating that Lee “conspired” with her husband Mohd Noor Fikrie Bin Abd Kahar. Police shot dead the Malaysian on December 14 after he threatened to blow up a bomb improvised from a rocket-propelled grenade shell.
De la Rosa said the wife carried the backpack when the couple was persuaded to leave their room at the Sampaguita Hotel here, before police and government agents pounced on them. Lee grew up in Sorsogon and converted to Islam. De la Rosa said that Lee remained in the holding cell of the Davao City police, while the police were awaiting the commitment order from the court to transfer her to the Davao City Jail in Maa District. She shared the cell with another woman inmate charged with illegal drug trafficking.
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