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UPDATE 1-Philippines deports U.S. Marine who killed transgender woman

Published 09/13/2020, 11:13 AM
Updated 09/13/2020, 11:20 AM

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MANILA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The Philippines on Sunday
deported a United States Marine convicted of killing a
transgender woman in the Southeast Asian country in 2014, after
he was granted an absolute pardon by President Rodrigo Duterte.
Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton left Manila's
international airport at 9:14 a.m. local time (0114 GMT) aboard
an American military aircraft bound for the United States,
according to Bureau of Immigration (BI) spokeswoman Dana
Sandoval.
Pemberton was accompanied by representatives from the U.S.
embassy on his way to the airport, she told state television
PTV-4.
"As a consequence of the deportation order against him,
Pemberton has been placed on the Bureau's blacklist, perpetually
banning him from coming back," BI Commissioner Jaime Morente
said in a statement.
Details of Pemberton's flight arrangements were not
disclosed to the media until after he left amid tight security
measures.
A court had found Pemberton guilty of killing Jennifer Laude
in a hotel in Olongapo, outside a former U.S. navy base
northwest of the capital Manila, six years ago, in a case that
sparked debate over the U.S. military presence in its former
colony.
Duterte's move to pardon Pemberton has sparked condemnation
from activists who described the move as a "mockery of justice".
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, who served as a lawyer
in the prosecution of Pemberton, had said Duterte's decision may
have stemmed from his desire to get access to coronavirus
vaccines being developed by U.S. firms. However, the Philippine health ministy said that none of the
U.S. vaccine makers the government is in talks with had set any
conditions.

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