INQUIRER.net: Catanduanes judge helps free jailed New Zealander

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Catanduanes judge helps free jailed New Zealander Apr 9th 2013, 01:02 VIRAC, Catanduanes—New Zealand native Vernon Wayne Gardiner walked away from jail last Friday after his compatriots back home pitched in via a TV program to raise over US$4,000 needed to restitute the amount he had gypped from a Filipino jobseeker in 2011.   Judge Lelu P. Contreras, presiding judge of the Virac Regional Trial Court Branch 42, ordered the dismissal of the twin cases for estafa and illegal recruitment against Gardiner, 66, and his former Filipina girlfriend Marisol Nazareno after disgruntled job applicant Joseph Diwata, 30, of Barangay (village) Calampong, Virac, decided not to pursue the cases.   Gardiner and girlfriend would have faced 20 year... Keep on reading: Catanduanes judge helps free jailed New Zealander Media files: Virac-Catanduanes.jpg (image/jpeg)

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