Student suffered 60 blows - QCPD

A fourth year student of the Philippine College of Criminology (PCCR) died from at least 60 blows to the body during initiation rites by suspected members of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said yesterday. 

- EMMANUEL TUPAS

Probers obtained the pieces of information surrounding the death of 25-year-old Ahldryn Lery Bravante from two of the four suspects who are in police custody.

“More or less the victim received 60 paddle hits and the initiation rites lasted more or less two hours,” QCPD director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan said in a news brie ng.

He did not identify who among the four suspects executed extrajudicial confessions in an attempt to become witnesses to the case.

The suspects claimed they threw the wooden paddle used during the hazing rites into a river. Maranan said probers are still verifying the claim.