On Friday, Nikoli Rhys, the man accused of killing Andre Trapp was found not guilty in Belize's second trail for jury. The case was prosecuted by the DPP herself who called 10 witnesses. But her case was dealt a deathblow when a confession from Rhys was not admitted into evidence. Still, Andre Trapp's family is not satisfied. They believe that the acquittal was a foregone conclusion. Today, speaking to us from the United States - Andre Trapp's mother told us that the case only served to stir up bad memories for her:..
Elizabeth Longsworth, Mother of Andre Trapp
"I knew from the outbreak that nothing would have come about this; it's just a front to say that they did something. He literally confessed and they threw it out. They just bring back sad memories to people because we knew that nothing would have come out of this. How in the world something like that could happened in a place like that and nothing come about it? Like I said it was state sponsored."
Jules Vasquez
"Mrs. Longsworth, have you achieved any closure with this in terms of losing your son; as well you have lost another son."
Elizabeth Longsworth, Mother of Andre Trapp
"I have never achieved any closure Jules. Every day, I have two other sons and everyday if I don't see my two other sons for a certain amount of time and I can't get a hold of them - it like everything with my son comes back in play. It's hard to get closure in stuff like this. They are saying a lof of things about Andre but they didn't know like how the community and we knew him."
Liz Longsworth has lost two sons to gun violence, Andre Trapp and Giovanni Chi.
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