Bride confesses to husband’s murder

THE Filipino bride of a British clergyman has confessed to his murder, police said yesterday.

David Brash, a Baptist minister from Warrington, Cheshire, was found in a swamp in the Philippines on Saturday after being reported missing by his wife, Annalyn Bataller Brash.

Local police chief Jaime Milla said Bataller broke down under interrogation after reporting the 62-year-old missing earlier this month.

Mr Milla said the 22-year-old had admitted hiring two accomplices to kill Mr Brash, whom she married in October last year, and led police to the swamp in Mindanao where his body was found.

Mr Brash, a father of two adult sons from his first marriage to Veronica, 61, was reported missing on November 29, less than a month after he moved to the Philippines to be with his new wife.

Bataller was charged with murder along with two men, her husband’s driver — and her lover, according to police — Renante Puerto Prado, 22, and Noah Martinez Noja, 30.

She is said to have complained that she and her young son were “mistreated” by Mr Brash.