Footage captures flight attendant Christine Dacera’s final moments before death
Chilling CCTV footage shows flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera kissing a man in the hallway of a luxury Philippines hotel — before she was found dead in the empty bathtub in her room.
The 23-year-old was captured in the City Garden Grand Hotel in Makati City as she partied on New Year’s Eve, GMA News said.
She was shown barefoot and holding a wine glass with at least three men as they moved between rooms — and also kissing a man in shorts and a backward-facing baseball cap.
Hours later, the Filipino flight attendant was found unconscious in her room — and soon pronounced dead at a local hospital after being rushed there by friends and hotel staff.
Makati City police claimed there were signs of her having been raped, and on Monday filed a provisional charge of rape with homicide against all 11 men who had partied with her.
But on Wednesday, prosecutors released the only three to have been arrested so far, insisting that investigators had not proved that she was “sexually assaulted or raped” — and if so, by which of the 11 accused men.
It was also not proved what caused her death, prosecutors said, with an initial autopsy saying she died of a “ruptured aortic aneurysm.”
Police and a lawyer for Dacera’s family, however, have suggested that the aneurysm was a result of her assault.
One of the accused, Gregorio de Guzma — the son of well-known Filipino singer Claire dela Fuente — dismissed reports that there was a gang rape, insisting most of the men were gay.
“How did it become rape? I am gay. I never had sex with any woman ever in my life,” Guzman told ABS-CBN TV, saying that up to eight of the 11 were “probably gay like us.”
He insisted he only remembered Dacera being “happy” at the party, then giving her CPR the next morning after discovering her unconscious in her room’s bathtub at the City Garden Grand Hotel.