RIYADH: A Filipino worker on death row in Dammam for killing a Saudi in 2000 could be released after a group led by former Philippine Ambassador Antonio P. Villamor lobbying for his release is due to come to the Kingdom next month to formally hand over part of an agreed sum of blood money to the victims' family.
The family of Rodelio “Don Don” Lanuza hired New York-based lawyer Loida Lewis as part of their untiring efforts to save him from execution. Currently, he's detained at the Dammam Central Jail.
The victim’s family granted a pardon to Lanuza in February 2011 in exchange for blood money which, according to the Daily Inquirer, amounts to SR3 million.
“Ambassador Villamor confirmed to me last Friday by telephone that he was in the final stages of forming a small delegation to come to Saudi Arabia to settle the blood money payment,” John Leonard Monterona, Migrante Middle East regional coordinator, told Arab News on Wednesday.
Source: Arab News, Feb. 16, 2012
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