German gets 17 years for murder

German gets 17 years for murder

MANILA (AFP): A German resident of the Philippines was jailed for 17 years in Manila for the murder of a Filipina prostitute two years ago, a lower court said yesterday.

Helmut Bister, 41, an electrical engineer from West Fahren, Germany, was found guilty of the beating death in 1993 of Eleanor Fabiosa, 18, whose body was found stuffed under a motel mattress.

Bister had told the court he killed the woman in self-defense after she attacked him with a broken bottle.

The verdict said Fabiosa died from injuries she received from Bister who beat her when the two had a fight in a motel room. Bister arrived in the Philippines in 1986 and married a Filipina that year, the court said.