The 49-year-old grandmother would buy simple gifts for her son, daughter and grandchildren, and prepares a variety of dishes for the family’s “noche buena” feast. “I will have no Christmas this year, and neither will my daughter,” Castillo said in an interview with Inquirer.net this week. Aldrin was a drug user, Castillo admitted, but she pointed out that he had already kicked the habit longbefore he was killed. Not on drug watch listCastillo also said her son was not on the drug watch list in Tondo or in Novaliches as he had a clean record and had no enemies. Normita, another woman who lost a son to the government’s anti-illegal drug campaign, told her that it would be a struggle to shop there because of the sheer number of people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 23, 2017 23:15 UTC