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PEOPLE vs Shareff Ali El Akhtar

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, SHAREFF ALI EL AKHTAR, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130640 | 1999-06-21

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

The Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 103,1 [Judge Jaime N. Salazar, Jr., presiding.] in Criminal Case No. Q-96-67171, convicted accused-appellant of the crime of Rape and sentenced him to death by lethal injection. The case is now before us on automatic review.

Accused-appellant is a 30 year old Libyan national, a student of Oriental Institute in its electronic technician's course, a resident of Lagro Subdivision, Quezon City,2 [TSN, April 10, 1997, p. 4.] and married to a Filipina nurse working in Libya3 [Ibid., p. 12.] with whom he has a one-and-a-half year old son.

Complainant is Gina...