
In the headlines: Pemberton and Garcia-Flores holding up a newspaper report on his pardon in Quezon city. — AP
HOURS before he was deported on Sunday morning, convicted US Marine Lance Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton apologised for the first time since he strangled to death transgender Jennifer Laude in 2014.
Pemberton’s lawyer Rowena Garcia-Flores said the 25-year-old former Marine extended his “most sincere sympathy” to the Laude family.
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