Choi Kyung Jin, the widow of Korean National Jee Ick Joo, and their househelp Marissa Morquicho at the Senate Hearing on Tokhang for Ransom. INQUIRER PHOTO/ALEXIS CORPUZ
The last time she saw her boss, South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo, alive was when he was struggling to breathe soon after being punched by his abductors inside a moving vehicle.
This was how Jee’s house help , Marisa Morquicho, described during the hearing of the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs on Thursday her last moments with the businessman.
Jee, along with the house help, was seized from his house in Angeles City, Pampanga in an alleged anti-drug operation last October 18. Unlike her boss, Morquicho was freed unharmed by police operatives allegedly led by SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel.
“Noong nasa loob po kami ng sasakyan, pagkalabas po namin ng subdivision, nakalagpas kami sa tulay ng Anonas, ano po bigla pong nagpupumiglas si sir tapos binugbog po nila, sinuntok po nila,” Morquicho said when asked by Senator Grace Poe what were the last words she heard from the Korean.
(Inside the vehicle, which left the subdivision and reached the Anonas Bridge, Sir Jee struggled to break free then he was punched by his captors.
