Threatens a witness … goes to jail

It happens more often than we’d like but is not always brought to the attention of authorities. Tonight, a Belize City man has been arrested for threatening a witness in a criminal trial. Twenty-three year old Arthur Higgs, a horse and carriage driver working out of the Tourism Village, has been charged with “attempted suppression of evidence”. He pled not guilty. Police allege that Higgs tried to obstruct the course of justice in the burglary trial of Wayne Kelly and Adrian Gotoy. The victim in that case, Darren McFadzean, told police that he was walking home on Tuesday afternoon when Higgs approached him, threatening to kill both McFadzean and his mother if he testified. Magistrate Harrison Hulett told Higgs that the threatening of witnesses is not to be taken lightly and remanded him to prison until April twenty-first.