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(Mark Welson Chua)
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Chua's body, in an early stage of decomposition, was wrapped in a carpet, his face covered with masking tape and his hands tied.
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On March 31, 2004, Arnulfo Aparri, Jr., one of the four suspects in the killing of Chua, was sentenced to die by lethal injection, and was ordered to pay Php 50,000.00 to the victim's family as indemnity. The sentence however, was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole after the death penalty was abolished in 2006. The other one of the four accused, Eduardo Tabrilla, pleaded guilty to homicide and was sentenced to 6-14 years of imprisonment in 2006. 
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The whereabouts of the two other suspects, Paul Joseph Tan and Michael Von Rainard Manangbao remain unknown.
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In the 72-page decision, the court found the perpetrators to have enjoyed and delighted in making Chua suffer slowly and gradually, causing the latter unnecessary physical pain in the consummation of the criminal act:
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"The perpetrators' actuations denote sadism and marked degree of malice and perversity. Chua's inhuman death was augmented by the use of other process of sufferings for the assailants' satisfaction."
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State Prosecutor Peter Ong said the verdict was just for the crime committed. He said:
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"Walang awa nilang pinatay yung walang kalaban-laban na biktima." 
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Prosecution witness Franco Salvador Suelto, a campus journalist, told the court that he saw Chua's body before it was wrapped in a carpet on March 18, 2001.
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Suelto, who was then a third year BS psychology student, explained that UST-ROTC commandant Maj. Dey Tejares was replaced by Capt. Rodolfo Batang in February 2001 due to the exposé made by Chua and a certain Romulo Yumol in the Varsitarian, the school paper.
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The exposé on alleged fixing at the ROTC prompted the Philippine National Police to conduct an investigation. The subject of the probe involved Tejares' staff namely Melchore Mallones, Genesis Binagatan and Jeoffrey Binagatan.
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On March 15, 2001, Suelto said he attended a meeting with cadet officers at the UST Department of Military Service Training at the back of UST Grandstand. Present during the meeting were Tabrilla, Tan, Mangangbao, Eliseo Petarge, Emmanuel Corpuz, Lito Orbus and other cadets.
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After the meeting, Suelto said he was set to work on an article for the school paper at the Varsitarian office, but decided to use the computer at the officers' lounge.
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Suelto said Mangangbao and Eliseo Pitarge went ahead of him and before he could enter the lounge, he saw Aparri, who was a fellow first class officer in the ROTC, dragging a body wearing a UST engineering uniform.
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The head was wrapped with tape. The hands and feet were tied behind the back with shoelaces, Suelto told the court. He presumed it was Chua.
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On September 28, 2007, the Court of Appeals upheld the guilty verdict on Aparri by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 18.
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Today in Filipino History, March 18, 2001, Mark Welson Chua, a UST ROTC cadet, was found dead at the Pasig River