God's Call Led to Torture and Death

Although evidence hasn’t shown that the Filipino pastor was involved in Brash’s death, Brash’s contention that he had been scammed hasn’t been resolved. What has been cleared up is that his new wife, along with their driver, Prado, was behind Brash’s torturous, painful death. According to police, Annalyn hired Prado and another man for the equivalent of about $700 to kill her husband.

According to the police in the Philippines, Brash left England on Nov. 1, 2007, to return to the Philippines after taking care of loose ends at home. In Brash’s final diary entry, written shortly before he departed England for the last time, he wrote: "Annalyn has asked that we spend Christmas and New Year with her family. It will be our first Christmas together. Annalyn is making preparations for our reunion. I want her to be happy about where we live. Me? I would be happy to live anywhere with her, so long as we are serving the Lord."

Brash had given his young bride the white wedding she had wanted, at a cost of about $1,600, considered reasonable by Western standards for a wedding "with all the trimmings," as Brash had characterized it.

"She had wanted to look like a princess, with me as her Prince Charming," Brash wrote in his diary. "She did indeed look gorgeous."

Shortly after his return to the Philippines, however, things quickly took a turn for the worse. Brash had a confrontation with Prado and accused him of stealing his Honda motorbike. When police investigated, Prado told them that Annalyn had given it to him as a gift. Afterward, during the last few days of November 2007, Prado and another man disappeared at about the same time that Annalyn had walked into a police station to report that her husband was missing.

Later, under intense police questioning, Annalyn broke down and confessed her part in her husband’s murder by taking out a contract on his life with the two alleged hit men. According to Senior Superintendent Ramon Espiritu, she eventually told the police that he had been killed on Nov. 22, and she led investigators to the swamp where his body had been concealed.

"She revealed during police interrogation that out of hatred and anger, because of what she claimed was her husband’s maltreatment, she had him killed," Espiritu said.

According to Espiritu, she had claimed that Brash had been beating her.

Police also alleged that she and Prado were having an extramarital affair at the time of Brash’s death, which may turn out to be a more substantial motive for murder than the maltreatment that Annalyn has alleged.

In the meantime David Brash is dead, his young wife has been charged with parricide and is wasting away inside a jail cell, and Brash’s alleged killers remain at large, presumably somewhere in the Philippines. Thus ended a most bizarre marriage, which led to an equally bizarre murder of a man who believed he was following God’s will. All that remains is for some semblance of justice to be served.