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| Mary Jane and husband Noel |
By The SUN
A Filipina domestic worker who died in her employers’ flat
while they were away on a holiday will be making her final voyage home to
Ilocos Norte late this month, according to her aunt.
But officers at the Consulate’s assistance to nationals
section and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Hong Kong said on Apr
20 they were still waiting for the undertaker of Mary Jane Respicio Jamon to
transmit her repatriation papers.
Police said they received a report about 4:15pm on April 4
that a 44-year-old foreign woman was found collapsed inside a unit on Cloud View Road, North
The case was classified as “dead body found”. Initial
investigation revealed no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death, the
Police Public Relations Bureau said in reply to an inquiry by The SUN.
Jamon’s aunt Alona V. Agustin said police called by the
female employer’s father had to force the main door open to enter the flat
after phone calls to the maid went unanswered. They found her body on the
toilet floor.
Agustin said the employers tried to call up Jamon as they were
about to return to Hong Kong to tell her to
ask their Filipino driver to pick them up.
Alarmed that no one was answering, the female employer
called up her father and asked him to go to the flat. But the old man found the
door double-locked and dialed 999.
Agustin, wife of the deceased’s paternal cousin, said police
told her that Jamon must have just urinated when she collapsed because she was
not able to flush the toilet.
“Siguro nahilo siya kasi may lahi silang high blood,”
Agustin said, adding that the victim often had flu. She said Jamon was supposed
to join her and some friends for barbecue on Apr 5, a public holiday.
Agustin said she saw a big bump on Jamon’s forehead and
dried blood and broken tooth in her mouth when she checked on the remains at Victoria
Funeral Parlor in Kennedy
Town
Herself a helper here, Agustin said she had been liaising
with the police, the Consulate, the funeral parlor and Jamon’s employers as she
processed the documents needed for shipping Jamon’s remains to her home in
Barangay Sta Maria, Piddig.
She said a public viewing of the deceased OFW will be held
on Apr 26 at 2pm to 2:45pm, and the shipping of her remains via a Philippine
Airlines flight will take place the following morning.
Officers at the ATN and OWWA, however, said the final
schedule is not yet known as the undertaker, Tim Fook Funeral, has not yet
handed the repatriation papers to the Consulate.
Jamon was born on Oct 20, 1973. She was married to Noel P.
Jamon from Cabatuan, Isabela, with whom she had a 5-year-old adopted child.
Agustin said Jamon had worked for her employers for six years
and had just signed her fourth contract with the family. Jamon went home for a vacation in the Philippines last year
The aunt is waiting for a copy of Jamon’s birth certificate
and marriage contract so that OWWA Hong Kong can send her long service pay and
salary to her husband.
Agustin also told The SUN about her difficulty conveying the
news to relatives because she did not know who to inform first. So, she relayed
it to Jamon’s sister in Finland ,
so she could inform her other siblings in Canada
and Hawaii
