The Department of Foreign Affairs today announced that through the assistance of the Philippine Embassy in Jordan, it has secured the acquittal of an OFW who was charged with being an accomplice to murder.

In his report to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to Jordan Ruperto M. Dizon said that Ms. Amelita Mission, an OFW based in Jordan, was acquitted with finality by Jordan's Cessation Court from the charges of being an accomplice to 1st degree murder. She was earlier found not guilty by the Jordan's Grand Criminal Court but the decision was appealed with the Cessation Court.

Ms. Mission was charged as being an accomplice to the murder of a well-known Jordanian artist in December 2002. Had she been convicted, she would have faced the sentence of life imprisonment, on hard labor. Her Egyptian husband, the principal in the crime, was convicted in absentia and has since gone into hiding in Libya.

During the course of the criminal trial that lasted for almost two years, Ms. Mission was provided with a lawyer by the Embassy utilizing the DFA's legal assistance funds. She is expected to be repatriated to the Philippines soon.