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Self-confessed gunman in Sytin slay gets up to 52 years in jail

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<p>MANILA - An Olongapo City court on Wednesday convicted the self-confessed gunman behind the killing of businessman Dominic Sytin and his bodyguard in Subic last year.</p><p>Olongapo City Regional Trial Court Branch 72 sentenced Edgardo Luib to reclusion perpetua or 40 years of imprisonment for Sytin&#x27;s murder and between 6 to 12 years for the frustrated murder of Sytin&#x27;s bodyguard Efren Espartero.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Olongapo court sentences Edgardo Luib, the gunman who confessed to killing businessman Dominic Sytin, to reclusion perpetua for Sytin&#x27;s murder and between 6yrs to 12yrs, 5mos, 11 days for frustrated murder of Sytin&#x27;s bodyguard Efren Espartero in Nov 2018. <a href="https://t.co/AagTNqEsuP">pic.twitter.com/AagTNqEsuP</a></p>— Mike Navallo (@mikenavallo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikenavallo/status/1197035764355256323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Luib, who was arrested in Batangas in March for a different murder case, had admitted to shooting Sytin and Espartero allegedly upon the orders of the victim&#x27;s younger sibling Alan Dennis.</p><p>The court, meanwhile, denied Dennis Sytin&#x27;s motion to quash or suspend the implementation of arrest warrants against him.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Olongapo court meanwhile denies motion to quash or suspend implementation of warrants of arrest filed by Alan Dennis Sytin, Dominic&#x27;s brother who is being tagged as the mastermind of his killing. Dennis and co-accused Oliver Fuentes/Ryan Rementilla are still at large. <a href="https://t.co/PZi6xCbdGW">pic.twitter.com/PZi6xCbdGW</a></p>— Mike Navallo (@mikenavallo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikenavallo/status/1197037353514106880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Dennis and co-accused Oliver Fuentes alias Ryan Rementilla remain at large.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/30/19/court-orders-sytin-arrest-for-bros-slay">Court orders Sytin arrest for bro&#x27;s slay</a></li></ul><p>The younger Sytin earlier <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/01/19/businessman-sytin-denies-hand-in-brothers-slay">denied </a>involvement, saying he was &quot;not capable of murder.&quot;</p><p>Police, however, said it was looking at an alleged fight over control of shares in United Auctioneers Inc. (UAI), one of the country&#x27;s biggest auction firms, prior to the killing.</p><div><strong>--With reports from Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News</strong></div>

<p>An Olongapo City on Wednesday convicted the self-confessed gunman behind the killing of businessman Dominic Sytin and his bodyguard in Subic last year.</p>

An Olongapo City on Wednesday convicted the self-confessed gunman behind the killing of businessman Dominic Sytin and his bodyguard in Subic last year.