John McAfee’s family do not believe he committed suicide and request a new autopsy

The preliminary autopsy confirmed that John McAfee, the technological genius who created the eponymous antivirus, committed suicide in a Barcelona prison.

According to the newspaper The country, the study found that the US-British businessman committed suicide in his cell last Wednesday. Mcafee he would have hanged at Brians 2 prison, northwest of Barcelona, ​​while he was awaiting extradition to the United States for tax evasion.

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McAfee, 75, reportedly committed suicide after his lawyers confirmed the Spanish court decision to hand him over to the United States. But his defense claimed he was working on a call.

According to the Spanish newspaper, which cites judicial sources, the controversial businessman I would have left a suicide note in the pocket of the pants.

What did his widow say

His family had already announced last week that will request a second autopsy and who wants to go all the way in the investigation of the case.

His widow, Janice McAfee, visited Brians 2 prison on Friday and assured that her husband had no suicidal intentions.

“His last words were”I love you and I call you at night” ” the woman told the Spanish press. And he accused the United States of “tragedy.”

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Also McAfee’s lawyer, Javier VillalbaHe said he did not believe in the suicide hypothesis.

“At no point did he show any outward sign that would allow us to guess that it might end this way,” he said.

In an interview with Radio of CataloniaThe lawyer said that “in case we noticed it immediately, we would have brought it to the attention of the prison and the court.”

McAfee was arrested on October 5, 2020 at Barcelona El Prat Airport for tax crimes in the United States.

“I am taking care of legal documents and I want to wait for the result of the police investigation, the autopsy and the second autopsy what the family is going to ask for, ”the lawyer said.

And he added that the family will wait for the result of the investigation and then “obviously they will be asked to clarify the responsibilities” and “against whom are these responsibilities demanded”, because “it cannot be free for our system. “.

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According to Villalba, the Spanish justice denied all parole applications “Cruelly and very rigorously” and he wondered if, if he had obtained this advantage, the businessman “would have had the same end”.

“I don’t think so, I think it’s a system failure that the use made in this country of the provisional prison be studied and taken into account ”, he indicated.