OLONGAPO CITY: A US Marine charged with murdering a transgender woman in the Philippines put his mother on the witness stand to start his defense on Monday, lawyers said.

Lisa Pemberton testified to the “good character” of her son Joseph Scott Pemberton at the closed-door trial in the northern port of Olongapo, his lawyer Rowena Flores told AFP.

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