A judge handling a controversial multi-million-dollar Philippine airport contract case was shot dead on Saturday by two gunmen on a motorcycle, police said.
Henric Guingoyon was walking home in a residential village when he was shot. He was pronounced dead at a hospital in Cavite province just south of Manila, police said.
Police said they had no evidence the killing was linked to a multi-million-dollar dispute over the Terminal 3 project at the main international airport in the capital.
The Supreme Court this month upheld a decision by a lower court, presided over by Guingoyon, ordering the government to pay compensation to a German-led consortium.