{"id":65657,"date":"2024-07-17T06:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/suspect-in-killings-of-two-australians-and-companion-in-philippines-hotel-surrenders-to-police"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:57:48","slug":"suspect-in-killings-of-two-australians-and-companion-in-philippines-hotel-surrenders-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65657","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in deaths of Australians at Philippines resort is former pool cleaner allegedly sacked by hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of Sydney man David Fisk, his partner Lucita Cortez and a relative of Cortez were found tied up in a hotel resort south of Manila<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the killings of two Australians and their Filipina companion at a hotel in a popular resort city south of Manila was a former pool cleaner who allegedly wanted to retaliate against the hotel for firing him.<\/p>\n<p> The suspect claimed that he randomly barged into the victims\u2019 room last week because its window was open, Philippine officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A hotel worker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/jul\/11\/australia-news-live-fire-factory-melbourne-alice-springs-curfew-violence-extended-northern-territory-nt-police?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-668f6aff8f082cd445a105ac#block-668f6aff8f082cd445a105ac\">found the bodies<\/a> of three victims, whose hands and feet were tied, on 10 July in a room at a hotel in the popular resort of Tagaytay city, south of Manila.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/suspect-in-killings-of-two-australians-and-companion-in-philippines-hotel-surrenders-to-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of Sydney man David Fisk, his partner Lucita Cortez and a relative of Cortez were found tied up in a hotel resort south of ManilaThe suspect in the killings of two Australians and their Filipina companion at a hotel in a popular resort city &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65657\/revisions\/65678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}