This is an incredible report, whilst I have some sympathy with Mrs xxxx the Abused party in this matter, of course the report is hearsay, and even if such a letter was received from a women's group sent to the Ambassador at the London Embassy, the matter is the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom authorities, not the Philippine Government, who has no jurisdiction to act on any acts of alleged abuse which has taken place in our country.

Even if the matter is true, and one supposes it is, sometimes our authorities are reluctant to intervene, just in case the parties make up, whilst they may not, unless the victim has visible injuries that can be recorded it is very difficult to follow up such a case.

What I find most incredulous, is that after a hearsay report sent to the Ambassador Edgardo Espiritu, he should then see fit to take time out, to forward on a request to the DFA to have the said perpetrator barred from entering the Republic of Philippines.

I can see a matter of double standards here at the extreme, for example, I find it hard to believe, that Mr Peter Beckingham our Ambassador in Manila, would seek to inform the foreign office that a certain Miss xxx who arranged the death of her British husband should then be barred from coming back into the United Kingdom, or Miss XXX who had been abusing her husband a British national or holding him to ransom for his savings, and income, should then be disbarred and placed on a UK Border black list, simply because she had scammed or abused him in some way.

There have been numerous reports detailed in the national newspapers of the Philippines of Filipino spouses, who have either,

1. Had their husbands murdered.

2. Abused and mentally brought their husbands to the point of suicide and relieved them of their life savings.

I have never seen a report in our newspapers that our Embassy in the Philippines has sort to have a certain Filipina, barred from re-entry to the United Kingdom on account of an act that has taken place within the legal jurisdiction of that country.

Again, ok I have sympathy with this lady if the reports are true, naturally, no one knows the story, and in my experience, there are always 2 sides to a marital dispute, notwithstanding those Filipino wives who leave their husbands for a life of work and singleness within 12 months of arriving in the UK.

Unless one is a witness to this, and see's the full facts before them, its pretty hard to come to any judgement, I don't suppose Mr Pembroke has any desire now or in the future to go over to the Philippines and find a.n. other Filipina to vent on her his rage with Mrs xxxxx wife no 1.

So barring him from entering the Philippines might not be something he will loose any sleep over.

AGAIN, CLEARLY DOUBLE STANDARDS AT WORK ! i JUST WISH SOMETIMES THE PLAYING FIELD WAS LEVEL.