John McAfee’s body yet to be released by Spanish authorities, widow says
The widow of John McAfee has launched a campain for his overall body to be released from a Spanish morgue, practically a yr soon after the cyber security pioneer died in a Catalan prison.
Janice McAfee questioned the motives of Spanish authorities, who have held her husband’s overall body at any time considering the fact that conducting an official autopsy that allegedly verified a loss of life by suicide whilst he was awaiting extradition to the US.
Mrs McAfee has questioned the official narrative, boasting that McAfee was not suicidal and that makes an attempt to carry out an impartial autopsy have been blocked by the hold off in releasing his overall body.
“If there were being any trustworthiness to that suicide story, then why are they not permitting us to have an impartial autopsy? Why simply cannot we get there autopsy report?” Mrs McAfee stated in an job interview with YouTube channel Rice TVx this week.
“There’s no cause why there should really be so quite a few delays. I mean it could be just incompetence on behalf of the Spanish [authorities] but I just feel that there might be anything extra sinister that is took place below.
“There’s just way too a lot of points that have occurred that just really do not include up. They ended up so quick to rush the tale of a suicide but yet they won’t give us the autopsy report, they won’t release his system – they don’t need to have to proceed to keep his human body, there is absolutely nothing more that they require to do with it… Why they will not release it doesn’t make any perception unless they have a thing to hide.”
An on the web petition contacting for McAfee’s physique to be returned to his widow was established up this 7 days, aiming to accumulate 100,000 signatures to enable “shed light” and offer a “conclusion for the mysterious situations bordering the demise of the founder of McAfee Anti-Virus”.
Without having McAfee’s overall body, Mrs McAfee has been not able to keep a funeral and has remained in Spain though awaiting his remains.
“It’s inexcusable why they would maintain his remains for so very long,” she mentioned in the interview. “Obviously they’re hiding some thing and I experience like an unbiased autopsy will support to get some responses as to what potentially may well have took place to him and how he died.”
A piece of paper located on McAfee’s overall body, which authorities claimed was a suicide take note, was shared by Mrs McAfee previous July. She believes it was a draft of a tweet, which he shared with her throughout phone phone calls from jail to put up on the social community internet site.
“This notice does not seem anything at all like someone who has no hope and is thinking about ending their life,” she wrote very last July. “This take note appears like a person of John’s tweets.”
Legal professionals symbolizing McAfee’s daughter Jen said in February that the lawful method could previous the entirety of 2022 in advance of his continues to be are returned to household.
“It is my comprehension it could choose months for a greater court to rule on the reduce-courtroom judge’s [ruling of suicide],” Pleasure Athanasiou advised MarketWatch. “And if the determination is the police report/ autopsy was not extensive ample, there could be a re-investigation and healthcare examination of some sort that would get various far more months.”
The Impartial has reached out for remark from Spanish Decide Victor Espigares Jiminez, who has presided more than the investigation into McAfee’s trigger of death.
