NEVER LEFT: The National Bureau of Investigation said that Hubert Webb was in the Philippines when the Vizconde Massacre happened in June 30, 1991.
“The evidence gathered by the task force disclosed that Hubert Jeffery Webb never left the Philippines on the date he said he did. He was seen by several persons who never knew each other and all of whom did not have any reasons to perjure their statements,” the NBI said.
The NBI also used as basis the Bureau of Immigration’s magnetic reel tape, which was used in the 90s for monitoring and intelligence purposes. It contained all travel records of persons departing from and arriving at the country.
Based on the sworn statement of Engineer Jolly Bert Galeon, BI’s chief of the computer section, the reel tape in 1991 showed that Hubert Webb was not on its list.
Webb’s alibi that he was in the United States when the massacre happened was upheld by the Supreme Court when he was acquitted in a decision on December 2010.
Hubert Webb to enter politics
FIVE years after being acquitted in the 1991 Vizconde massacre case, a legal saga that kept him behind bars for 15 years, Hubert Webb apparently wants to complete his vindication through the ballot.
Webb was among the six men convicted in 2000 for the killing of sisters Carmela and Jennifer and their mother Estrellita Vizconde in their Parañaque City home, and then acquitted by the Supreme Court a decade later, is running for city councilor in the 2016 elections.
Webb filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) last month, according to Kimberly Alzate-Cu, the city’s election officer.
Webb’s brother Jason is on his third and last term as councilor of the city’s first district, where Hubert is running as an independent.
The son of former senator Freddie Webb entered the political arena on Day 3 of the five-day period for the filing of COCs.