4 charged in St. Matthews murder

It was a shocking and brutal end for an elderly watchman of St. Matthews Village, but today the four men police believe are responsible for the murder of sixty-eight year old Wilford Requeña were charged in Belmopan Magistrate Court. The four individuals: Rudolph Young, Leroy Arnold, William Rubio, and Alfonso Juarez, who range in age from seventeen to twenty-five, are all from St. Matthews. They have been jointly charged with murder and abetment to murder and were remanded to Hattieville Prison pending trial. Requeña’s body was found on February ninth, wrapped in a tarpaulin in the downstairs of a farmhouse where he worked as a live-in caretaker for Rodney Bowen. He had been hit in the head with a blunt instrument. Police believe the motive for the murder was robbery.