The daughter of a late British peer has been shot dead in the Philippines in what appears to be a vigilante-style gang hit in the country’s bloody crackdown on drugs. Her attackers propped up a cardboard sign against her body which said: “Drug pusher to the celebrities.”Moynihan was the daughter of the 3rd Lord Moynihan, a British peer who fled to the Philippines in the late 1960s following fraud allegations. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rodrigo Duterte is waging a campaign to kill everyone involved in the country’s drug trade. Moynihan secretly recorded “drug dealing” conversations with Marks for the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Educated in French literature in Paris, Maria Moynihan was arrested in 2013 for alleged possession of shabu, or crystal meth, the drug Duterte wants to rid the country of.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2016 12:26 UTC