By ROGER BALAMAD | October 18, 2009

There’s more than meets the contents of the police blotter sketching the murder incident in Dauis town on October 2 featuring a relative of Police Senior Supt. Edgardo Ingking, provincial director of the Philippine National Police, Bohol Command.

While police reporters pounced on the prominence of the suspect who happens to have the same family name as the top Bohol policeman, what was not known in public was the human interest angle of the story.

In fact, one reporter erroneously named Supt. Ingking as a brother of the suspect, Raymund Ingking, 36, a native of Pamaong St., this city but now residing in Mariveles, Dauis town.

Irked, Supt. Ingking denied the insinuation saying the suspect was indeed his relative but not his brother.

Nowhere in the sketchy police report that one angle investigators was looking into was that the victim was suspected to have carried an illicit relation with the wife of the suspect. The victim was identified as Allan Nistal y Hongayo, 37, single, and laborer of the same Dauis barangay.

In his own counter-affidavit, Ingking said sometime last month, he heard loose talks in the community that the victim and Floriza “Liclic” Lagatic, the wife’s suspect were having an affair. But according to Ingking, his wife denied the allegations, as false.

The suspect further elaborated about his suspicion that there indeed was something going on between Nistal and his wife. He said on September 30 at past 10:00 pm, a peeping through the window, he saw Nistal passed several times in their residence.

Ingking also said he also noticed his wife to be acting strangely while putting on and off a flashlight.

What appeared to be the “dead giveaway” of the illicit relation happened on the same night when Ingking was roused from his sleep while beside his wife. He said at this instance he felt an electric fan was put on but he asked his wife to put it off. He, however, was surprised to have noticed that his wife was perspiring heavily.

Ingking said, acting on his suspicion, he touched the private part of his wife and felt it to be “wet and sticky”.

It was on the night of October 2 that the September 30 incident was repeated in the Ingking abode.

With a drawn gun, Ingking then confronted Nistal. Denying that the victim carried an illicit affair with the wife, the suspect said “okay, I will not harm you but help me get a ride to Tagbilaran City”.

Ingking further narrated in his counter-affidavit that while his attention was focused on how to get a ride to Tagbilaran, Nistal suddenly grabbed his hand and grappled the gun in his possession. He said in their fight for control of the gun, it went off after the trigger was puled several times hitting the victim.

The suspect ended his sworn testimony with the statement that he had no intention to kill Nistal adding that, had he wanted it to, he should have done it earlier while he was in their house.