The Filipino secretary of foreign affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr has ordered the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait to stop the payment of KD50,000 in blood money over the murder of an overseas Filipino worker, Al-Rai daily reported.
Jeanelyn Villavende, 26, died from injuries inflicted by her employer’s wife in December 2019.
In December last year, a Kuwaiti court sentenced Villavende’s female employer, a Kuwaiti citizen, to death by hanging, while the husband was given a four-year jail term for not reporting the crime.
In a tweet, Filipino foreign secretary, Teodoro Locsin Jr., announced that he had instructed Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammed Noordin Pendosina Lomondot to ensure that the death penalty was carried out.
“Accepting an amount equivalent to 7.5 million Filipino pesos as the price of this horrific crime is tantamount to selling the blood of this victim.” He tweeted.
The minister stated that he had actually ordered the Philippine ambassador to Kuwait, Muhammad Nur al-Din Lomondot, to “abort any attempts to proceed with the implementation of an offer to pay a ransom money to Villavende’s family, and work to ensure that the death penalty is carried out against those convicted of killing her.”
“Villavende is dead,” he said. Nobody moved to save her when it was worth it. And now the issue is no longer related to salvation, but to respect her in her death through achieving justice for her, regardless of what her family believes about the cost of her suffering.
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