Family of Late Geraldine Flowers Confused and Hurt

Just a few days after the five-year death anniversary of Dangriga resident Geraldine Flowers, the family is speaking up to voice confusion over the matter. In June 2019, forty-one-year-old Flowers was found shot dead inside her home and her cousin, Stephen Reid who had been visiting at the time, had suffered a stab wound. Subsequently, Rodwell Arzu, the ex-boyfriend of Flowers was charged with the murder. It’s been five years of demanding justice from the family of Flowers, and tonight, they demand answers. Ione Jones-Waller, sister of the deceased, claims that the family had never been informed of or summoned to the trials and only learned of the trial’s outcome after spotting Arzu walking the streets. Tonight, she asks, why?

 

Ione Jones-Waller, Sister of Deceased

“The things that get to us is that, they halla its a nolle pros. How can this case be a nolle pros. A nolle pros meaning that you don’t have any witness. We have a main witness that is a Belize Defense Force soldier. How can you not find the main witness in this case? You as the police department, D.P.P., you guys need to go at Price Barracks and look for the main witness in this case. Come on. We as the family member unu lef we with a hole in our heart to know that they killed our, my sister, our sister, and nothing come out of it. MeIn come on. As far as I’m concerned, and far as I know, you have a lot of cases that go that the main witness either dead, or they can’t find deh, and what they do, they use the same statement that the main witness already give in to the police department and use that as an evidence to submit a case. What is, what wrong with our case? Why? What wrong? I want the higher authority to please answer me and answer me what went wrong with my sister’s Geraldine Flowers, Geraldine Jones Flowers case. We don’t know anything about the case. Nobody from Dangriga didn’t contact us. Nobody from Dangriga didn’t call none of us. Nobody. It left me a lot of words because we get to know that this young man walked as a free with a nolle pros case because a family friend from Dangriga call us last night, about 8:30 and tell us that she saw him in Dangriga. And he tell them that he get a nolle pros case. Come on. This is unfair to us as our family mein. It really hurt us. It really hurt us.”