The ‘bonkers’ world of John McAfee: Russian roulette, poisoned dogs and life on the run from a ‘hit squad’ – The Telegraph

The voice on the end of the line was somewhere in the Belize jungle and sounded more than a little paranoid.

"I cannot talk on this phone for long," John McAfee told the Telegraph, while on the run after his next-door neighbour was found dead with a bullet in his head.

McAfee said he was being tracked by a paramilitary hit squad and he was in disguise, staying on the move. He said it would be "foolish" to say more.

"They nationalised the phone company so they can trace calls and triangulate," he said. "My plan is a day-to-day plan, simply to avoid detection."

While maintaining his innocence he vowed to never turn himself in, adding: "I think I will be summarily executed. They can make up some excuse for removing me. This is the way it is in this country.

"I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. The world chooses to think what the world thinks."

In passing, he denied suggestions he had been running a meth lab.

"There was no meth lab, what on Earth would I be doing running a meth lab?" he said.

It was November 2012 and McAfee had been declared a "person of interest" in the killing of his neighbour Gregory Viant Faull, a retired American builder from Florida.

The two men lived 300 yards from each other on Ambergris Caye, an island off Belize.

Faull was discovered by his housekeeper lying face up in a pool of blood inside his house. A single Luger 9mm shell was found nearby. There was no sign of a break in but a laptop computer and phone were missing.

Faull had previously made a complaint to local authorities about McAfee's dogs, claiming they were "vicious" and attacked people.

Four of the dogs, named Mellow, Lucky, Dipsy, and Guerrero, had been found poisoned the day before Faull was shot dead.

However, McAfee told the Telegraph he did not blame Faull for the demise of his dogs. Instead, he accused the Belize authorities of killing them.

McAfee said: "He (Faull) did not like my dogs. All neighbours can be minor annoyances from time to time but without them the world would be empty. I know he didn't kill my dogs."

On the night of Faull's death he had been "at home", McAfee said, adding: "I heard nothing. I knew nothing until the following day."

About a month later McAfee was arrested in Guatemala for crossing the border illegally. He was deported to the US and was never charged or questioned over the incident in Belize.

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The 'bonkers' world of John McAfee: Russian roulette, poisoned dogs and life on the run from a 'hit squad' - The Telegraph