But, first to news of a compelling story coming out of the murder of Panamanian Diplomat, Jose Rodrigo De la Rosa Stanford.
As we told you last night police were quick to detain the prime suspect and even recover the Charge D' Affairs stolen vehicle. Tonight they are preparing to charge an 18 year old male for the crime.
But, there's a disturbing counter narrative that has appeared. It's being led by the girlfriend of the accused. She's not saying he's innocent - she says that the teenager was acting in self defence, as he fought off an unwelcome sexual advance from the 64 year old diplomat.
She says that De La Rosa lured him to that secluded area known on La Choza road, and it was there that the older man allegedly tried to rape him at gunpoint.
We met Chavarria's girlfriend at the Belmopan Police station. She asked to speak off-camera about his version of the encounter, which left De La Rosa dead. Here's what she told us:
Voice of: Girlfriend of Winsor Chavarria
"What happen is that he was defending himself because that man, the Diplomat, he is a pervert, he wanted to rape him. He wanted to take advantage of him, that's why he defended himself. He had no choice."
Mike Rudon, Ch5
"Have you had a chance to talk to Windsor after the incident happened? What exactly did he tell you?"
Voice of: Girlfriend of Winsor Chavarria
"He told me that the man offered him - he knew him from where he use to work and so he met him at the terminal. He was shopping and the man offered him a ride and a drink and so he took it. Then the man told him that he knew a nice place to take a drink and he took him to this place, an isolated place that he didn't knew and then he gave him another beer and then the man like try to touch his private parts when he didn't want it, the man took out his gun and tried to rape him and that's when he saw a blade in his car and he cut him. He didn't know where, but he had to do it to defend himself because it was his life or the man's life."
Mike Rudon, Ch5
"What was Windsor's reaction when he went home, when he was telling you what happened?"
Voice of: Girlfriend of Winsor Chavarria
"He didn't tell me the first minute, but I saw him weird. He tried to tell me what was going on."
Reporter
"AT that moment, his state of mind, did he know exactly the gravity or the extent of what he did?"
Voice of: Girlfriend of Winsor Chavarria
"He was confused. It's the first time he did this because he is not like that. It is the first time he did something like that."
As we told you last night, De La Rosa becomes the first Diplomat to be killed in Belize. The apparent murder sent a chill though the diplomatic community where there was a concern that the crime could have been to target staff of foreign missions. The personal angel seems to suggest otherwise - and we understand the accused has given a confession statement to this effect and is cooperating with police. Police expect to charge him tonight or tomorrow morning. He has been identified by his family to us as Winsor Chavarria, a resident of Belmopan.
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