Controversieel interneticoon en uitvinder van antivirussoftware John McAfee heeft woensdag op 75-jarige leeftijd zelfmoord gepleegd in de cel van een Spaanse gevangenis. Dat meldt El Pais.
McAfee werd vorig jaar oktober in Spanje op verzoek van Amerikaanse justitie gearresteerd op verdenking van belastingontduiking. Een rechter besliste onlangs dat hij zou worden uitgeleverd aan de Verenigde Staten.
De lemma’s ‘Personal life‘ en ‘legal issues‘ op zijn Wikipedia spreken verder boekdelen over de persoon John McAfee toen hij nog in leven was:
“The night after McAfee arrived in the United States after being deported from Guatemala in December 2012, he was solicited by Janice Dyson, then a prostitute in South Beach (Miami Beach). The two spent the night together. Despite Dyson being more than 30 years McAfee’s junior, McAfee and Dyson subsequently began a relationship, and married in 2013.
McAfee claimed that the former cocaine baron “Boston” George Jung is writing his official biography, No Domain.
Since December 2018, McAfee had stated several times on Twitter that he has 47 biological children.
On April 30, 2012, McAfee’s property in Orange Walk Town, Belize, was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit of the Belize Police Department. At that time, McAfee was in bed with a girlfriend. A GSU press release stated that McAfee was arrested for unlicensed drug manufacturing and possession of an unlicensed weapon. He was released without charge. In 2012, Belize police spokesman, Raphael Martinez, confirmed that McAfee was neither convicted nor charged, only suspected.
In January 2014, McAfee claimed that when the Belizean government raided his property, it seized his assets, and that his house later burned down under suspicious circumstances.
On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a “person of interest” in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull. Faull was found dead of a gunshot wound on November 11, 2012, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize. Faull was a neighbor of McAfee’s. In a November 2012 interview with Wired, McAfee said that he has always been afraid police would kill him, and thus refused their routine questions; he has since evaded the Belizean authorities. Belize’s prime minister, Dean Barrow, called McAfee “extremely paranoid, even bonkers.” McAfee fled Belize when he was sought for questioning concerning the murder.
The magazine Vice accidentally gave away McAfee’s location at a Guatemalan resort in early December 2012, when a photo taken by one of its journalists accompanying McAfee was posted with the EXIF geolocation metadata still attached. While in Guatemala, McAfee asked Chad Essley, an American cartoonist and animator, to set up a blog so that McAfee could write about his experience while on the run. McAfee then appeared publicly in Guatemala City, where he attempted to seek political asylum.”
