ILOILO CITY – The police yesterday filed a criminal complaint against a German tourist for the rape and killing of an entertainer on Boracay Island.

The Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office filed a rape with homicide charge before the Aklan Provincial Prosecutors Office against Adolf Christian Winterer, 43, for the killing of Mylene de la Rosa.

BSTPO chief Senior Insp. Auxilio Dador said they have enough evidence to charge Winterer, a resident of Munich in Germany, who has been staying on the island for around a year.

“Witnesses and physical evidence point to him as the culprit,” Dador said in a telephone interview.

Dela Rosa, 32, a resident of Libacao town in Aklan and a mother of five children, was found dead around 5:30 a.m. Friday by a jogger along the beach in Barangay Yapak, in the northern end of the 1,000-hectare island-resort.

The victim was still dressed in jeans and blouse but her body bore bruises and cigaret burns, which point to the possibility that she was tortured before she was killed. Dador said a medical examination on the injuries on the victim's are consistent with rape.

Police arrested Winterer around 10:30 a.m. at the resort he was staying Friday, after witnesses told investigators that he was with the victim in a bar in Barangay Balabag the night before her remains was found.

A barangay tanod (village watchman) also saw Winterer with blood in his clothes hours before the victim was found dead.

Winterer has denied to investigators any involvement in the crime and denied knowing and being with the victim. He said the blood in his clothes was caused by a motorcycle accident.

But Dador said that while there were bloodstains in the suspect's motorcycle, there was no damage to the vehicle if it was involved in an accident.

One of the witnesses also told investigators that Winterer was already physically assaulting the victim in the bar and was overheard threatening to kill her, said Dador.

The suspect has been detained at the BSTPO station in Boracay but is expected to be transferred to the Aklan provincial jail after the charge has been filed.*NPB

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