His defence team countered that Duterte had murdered no one and that the prosecution's argument was based on "hearsay" and "conjecture", falling far short of the bar needed to confirm the charges against him.
"He's proud of his killings. He wants to be remembered for them," said Julian Nicholls, summing up for the prosecution.
"Decades of murdering his own people, murdering the children of the Philippines,
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