2 Ecuadoreans get life sentence for murder of Pinay helper

Published by rudy Date posted on June 15, 2010

Two Ecuadorian nationals were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty for the murder of a Filipino maid in Toronto, Canada in Oct. 1. 2007, a report said yesterday.

Jocelyn Dulnuan, 27, was strangled with a thin braided copper wire that was wrapped twice around her neck and tied tightly with a knot at her throat. Her left hand was also bound with the same wire while her feet were bound with a sweater.

Found guilty were Cristian Figueroa, 37, and Fabian Loayza-Penaloza, 40, Canada ’s The Star said. Both men pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Justice John Sproat told jurors the verdict was “very well justified” based on the evidence presented during the month-long trial.

The murder convicts each testified and blamed the other as the lone killer of Dulnuan who works in a Mississauga mansion. They admitted they went to the 30,000square-foot mansion that day to commit a burglary but insisted they never harmed the Filipino.

The victim’s employer found Dulnuan dead and lying on her back on her bedroom floor behind a closed door when she arrived home after work at 5 p.m.

The maid’s slaying was one of Greater Toronto’s highest-profiled cases of the year and was covered by every television station and newspaper. Michaela P. del Callar, Daily Tribune

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