All this week, we've been reporting on the Felix brothers Maurice and Emory. They faced their third jury on Monday, and again, it was a hung jury. Since the brothers have been tried 3 times already, the DPP will not bring a fourth prosecution against them - meaning they will be set free. But when? The DPP told us that at a later date, her office will be writing to the authorities to indicate that intention. When the police and the Central Prison are officially informed, the men will be released. That's too long to wait for Janet Felix who has been waiting for 8 years to see her sons who she says were wrongfully accused.
Janet Felix - Mother of Emory
"They are still behind bars and I just cannot understand why they are behind bars still. I thought they would have been home already."
Monica Bodden reporting
After deliberating for six hours on Wednesday, a Corozal jury couldn't come to a verdict in the third murder trial for the brothers- Emory and Maurice Felix. Today, they are still behind bars - but are waiting to be released anytime soon back into society after spending 8 years behind bars.
Janet Felix - Mother of Emory
"Anticipation is really high because I really my son out, but then I don't know the life they will live. That is the thing because people will not hire them to work and they didn't just went into jail like that."
Felix believes her sons are innocent and were wrongfully charged.
Monica Bodden
"Ms. Felix, do you believe that your sons committed that murder?"
Janet Felix - Mother of Emory
"No I don't believe that, plus my deceased daughter use to left the house every night although she was sick and went and investigate the murder. Before she died she did that and when at the end of her investigation she said 'mama, remember that I will die, take every money that the police department are giving you and empty it on the boys because my brothers doesn't belong in jail.'"
As a single mother, she blames the police department for the name her children has now earned in society.
Janet Felix - Mother of Emory
"Because every minute they are locked down. Police come and search my house every time and it was shameful for the police to say that they came here and went all up in my attic the night at the murder when Mitchum died, but Paloma got up in the court and say that he went all up in my attic which is wrong and I have no attic. That's the thing, I have absolutely no attic."
"When Emory was in like standard 3 one night I came home from work because I use to work with the medical department and my daughter open the door for me when I came home from the night shift and she said that she wanted to tell me something, she said that her little brother cannot read, you have to do something and I started to get all over place because I got worried and one day I was standing by William Quan store and there was this handsome man coming down the street with long dreads and I said, mister, I can't understand my son is going to school and cannot read. The man said they called it Dyslexia. He said take your son to the YMCA, he will get help there and then I ask the man his name and he said I am Andy Palacio. At that time Andy Palacio had just came back to Belize and that made my day - one handsome man I had never spoken to yet - that made my day."
"When I took my son at YMCA on Daly Street, not a day did he say that he wasn't going - rain or shine he goes."
That proud son she spoke about went on to graduate from Gwen Liz High school and passed 5 CXC examinations.
Felix says she can vouch that her sons were at home at the hour when Mitchum Heredia was killed on April 10th, 2006.
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