Pardoned murder convict Claudio Teehankee Jr. went out of the New Bilibid Prison compound in Muntinlupa City through a backdoor Wednesday evening.

Father Roberto Olaguer, NBP chaplain, told the media covering the release that Teehankee was already out of prison around 7 p.m. Olaguer, however, refused to make a statement on camera.

Witnesses said Teehankee, wearing a brown shirt and carrying a helmet, went out through a back door of the Ina ng Awa Parish Church, which is near a candle factory within the maximum security compound.

He was accompanied by another man, who led him to a staircase behind the church.

The pardoned convict then rode a motorcycle to a street corner, where a red government-owned pickup truck with plate number SEW-750, was waiting for him.

Teehankee was also reported to have passed by the living out quarters of convicted child rapist and former Zamboanga del Norte Rep. Romeo Jalosjos on his way out.

However, when ABS-CBN News went to Jalosjos's quarters, a woman named Belen said the former congressman was not there, as was Teehankee.

Teehankee, a son and namesake of the late chief justice of the Supreme Court, was convicted in 1995 for the murder of 16-year-old Swedish-Filipino Maureen Hultman and American Roland John Chapman and the wounding of Jussie Leino, a Swede, inside Dasmariñas Village in Makati City. With reports from Ron Gagalac, ABS-CBN News