Three more persons invited for questioning by the police, in connection with the brutal rape-slay of 16-year-old Mary Joy Mayo in Hacienda Cabanbanan, Brgy. Zone 12-A, Talisay City, were subjected yesterday to paraffin tests.

This brought to 13 the number of persons, including Jose Jigger Besorio, stepfather of Mayo, summoned by the Talisay police, in their effort to identify the suspects and to fast-track the solution of the heinous crime.

Besorio, who denied the accusations against him, is still detained at the Talisay police station headquarters, while the others who were invited for questioning, have already been released from the police custody.

Chief Inspector Joseph Thomas Martir, Talisay police chief, yesterday said they will release Besorio today, if the result of his paraffin test yields a negative result.

Talisay police probers noted many inconsistencies in the statement of Besorio, in connection with the brutal rape-slay of his stepdaughter on Monday.

Initial findings of the medico-legal officer of the Talisay showed that the victim was molested, had two gunshot wounds on her breast and right leg, and seven incise wounds in the forehead. The body of Mayo, a resident of Cuartero town in Capiz, was also discovered half-naked, without her pants and underwear, in a sugarcane plantation of the place.

The result of the paraffin tests of Besorio and several others are expected to be known today.

Meanwhile, militant women's group Gabriela yesterday condemned the killing of Mayo, a first year college student of the Carlos Hilado Memorial State College in Talisay City.*GPB

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