The voice on the end of the line was somewhere in the Belize jungle and sounded more than a little paranoid.<\/p>\n
\"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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\"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.\"<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\"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.\"<\/p>\n
In passing, he denied suggestions he had been running a meth lab.<\/p>\n
\"There was no meth lab, what on Earth would I be doing running a meth lab?\" he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The two men lived 300 yards from each other on Ambergris Caye, an island off Belize.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Faull had previously made a complaint to local authorities about McAfee's dogs, claiming they were \"vicious\" and attacked people.<\/p>\n
Four of the dogs, named Mellow, Lucky, Dipsy, and Guerrero, had been found poisoned the day before Faull was shot dead.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\"<\/p>\n
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.\"<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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