A British national is now on the Bureau of Immigration’s blacklist allegedly for inflicting physical and emotional abuse on his Filipino wife.
BI Commissioner Marcelino Libanan said John Paul Pembroke, 32, is barred from entering Philippine soil for allegedly maltreating and abusing his Filipina wife.
“No one deserves Filipino hospitality if he is a wife beater, more so if the victim is a Filipina,” Libanan said in a press statement Thursday.
Pembroke’s inclusion in the blacklist was a result of the request coming from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Libanan said the DFA made the request after the Philippine Embassy in London informed the department about a complaint that Pembroke’s Filipina wife filed against her husband.
A foreign service circular was also issued by DFA Assistant Secretary Domingo Lucenario Jr. who sought Pembroke’s inclusion in the BI blacklist after his office received a report on the Briton’s case from Philippine Ambassador to London Edgardo Espiritu.
In his report, Espiritu suggested that the Briton be barred from entering the country to prevent him from subjecting other Filipino women to physical and verbal abuse.
The ambassador furnished the DFA a copy of a letter from the Berk***** Women’s Aid (BWA), a pro-women’s group in Great Britain, detailing the ordeal that the victim suffered in the hands of her estranged husband.
BWA quoted the victim’s narrative of how her husband subjected her to physical and emotional abuse, harassment and other acts of domestic violence on several occasions early this year.
She also said that even after they separated, Pembroke continued to harass and threaten her through voicemails and text messages.
