David White’s mother wants murder charge for woman who burned him
yvonne thompson
It’s been almost a month and a half since Lavern Longsworth, the court personality known as Antichrist, set her common-law-husband David White on fire at their home on Castle Street. Longsworth was charged with attempted murder of White, but he passed away on August second while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. There was a buzz about whether or not the charges against Longsworth would be upgraded. Longsworth had spoken about physical abuse she received from White during their relationship. This morning she appeared before Dorothy Flowers but the case was adjourned. White’s mother attended the session this morning and was unhappy that the charge against Longsworth was not upgraded to murder. She spoke to News Five after the adjournment.
Yvonne Thompson, Mother of David White
“I had expected that they were going to charge Miss Lavern for Murder of my son David. But when I got there they said that court number two that she was supposed to go in, the magistrate there is on some kind of leave or something like that so they sent us to court number six. All she did was walk in and walk out; they adjourned it until the eighteenth of next month. That’s all that happened and I’m very disappointed. As I always said, they should have her already hold and charged for murder automatically. But this woman is out here walking free with no care in the world as if she hadn’t done somebody wrong. So that’s my problem. How haven’t they arrested her and charged her for murder? I called to have a meeting with the DPP but I don’t know when she will call me back and arrange that meeting. She is friendly with the court. She is friendly with the magistrates.”
Longsworth will appear in court on October eighteenth. Thompson believes that Longsworth is receiving special treatment because she makes a living by carrying out errands for employees of the courthouse.
Her son beat his woman, brought kerosene to intimidate her, ended up on the losing end of this battle & she wants justice. She got her justice when she allowed “nobody” to burn Lavern’s face.
The court is not showing preference. Unless the jury is filled with this idiot’s relatives, a murder conviction is unlikely. Miss Thompson, no mother should outlive her child but we have to raise our sons to respect women & that includes not beating them or showing up with fuel to intimidate them. Who taught him that behavior? If it makes you feel better, applaud his bravery but if you have another son, tell him to start running when his woman throws fuel on him or better yet, hope he loves himself enough to choose a different lifestyle.
Yvonne give it a rest, and leave lavern alone.
Your son was a crack-head, a thief and a woman beater.
He stole and beat the crap out of laven for years, and the night she dosed him with kerosene was in self defence. she should have pleaded” insanity”, because to have lived in such a crazy situation, would have to require a crazy person to do so.
Not once did i hear you speak out against abuse against women, even though your son was the poster -boy for abuse.
If he had killed Lavern instead, I bet we would never see your face in the news.
Well said folks…
Maddy. Girl know body could hav sead it any better.
I do not condone what this young lady did.However i was not living her life as a result i am going to leave this one for the DPP let’s see what’s going to happen.
i think from my view that this things come from lack of family values, we have to teach our sons to respect woman as a special person as well to teach our daughter how to respect man and to talk when needed if there is abuse don’t stay mum. it’s a pity to see man beat woamn either if she has the fault it doesn’t give man the go ahead to beat woman, be a man and sit down and talk, if things seem not to blend then separete from each other before things like these be the end. it’s really hard to see how our belizean couples are living with couple problems that end in killings or suicides. we need alot of family values lectured from young in our families to avoid situations that seems crazy. hope justice is served for both ladies, one for the grieving mom who could have stop her son to end up being killed which he was a bully and the lady that could have left the man and live like indepent woman but domestic violence is still strong in our society.
The issue here is that a life has been lost and a mother seeks justice to gain solace in her time of grief. There are no winners in this case. Both Lavern and David are victims in this case.
To Ms. Yvonne Thompson: My sincere condolences to you on the loss of your son, David. I will continue to pray for you and your family as I do for my own each day.
It is easy for many of us to sit back and pass judgment on others about things that happen but none of us know for sure with any degree of certainty what our survival instincts will lead us to do when our life is in jeopardy. We may think we know based on our values, experience, etc. but it is difficult to predict certain outcomes when uncertainty exists and human behavior helps to determine the outcome.
As Lavern’s sister, I struggled personally with my desire to give my sister the support she needs and to come to terms with the consequence of her alleged actions. How can I pray and ask God to help my sister and ignore that fact that she has allegedly contributed to the death of another human being? To help myself cope with this tragedy, I pray for forgiveness for Lavern and ask God to strengthen David’s family during the healing process that they will go through.
There is no need to demonize David. Yes, Ms. Thompson knows what her son was like and the type of relationship David and Lavern shared but this woman is going through a period of bereavement and we cannot expect her to look at this with any sympathy for Lavern. Since this is an ongoing legal matter, it would be wrong of me to disclose on this forum details of this case that could create bias when it is likely that potential juror may be reading this post.
It is wrong for any of us to blame Ms. Thompson for David’s actions as well as pass blame on my parents for Lavern’s actions. Lavern and David chose to be in a relationship together and they are solely responsible for the decisions they make as adults. Despite the allegations against Lavern, she is grieving for David.
To my sister, Lavern: I love you and I will continue to give you guidance and support during this difficult time. Stay strong, Sis and continue to pray.
Ms Yvonne give thanks and praises to the Lord that your good for nothing, crack head, woman beater son will be out of trouble forever…now go take a long rest without worries that he will be in trouble tomorrow or the other day…..if u have grand babies teach them right so they don’t end up like this looser who deserved what he got. in the end we reap what we sow right? so Ms. Yvonne as much as u loved your son I take it that you did not do a good job as a parent and if you did sorry that I condoned you but sometimes our children grow up to be whatever they want to be and we cannot control them we just have to live with the consequences of bad behavior and it’s results. So sorry for your Loss but believe me it was probably for the better.