Belizean American Firefighter Acquitted of Attempted Murder

After nearly two months behind bars, American national Gilbert Lightburn Junior  is finally a free man. The forty-one-year-old firefighter faced several criminal charges, including three counts of attempted murder, following a September incident at Shisha’s nightclub in Belize City. The altercation escalated, resulting in three people being stabbed, which led to Lightburn’s charges. However, he insisted he was only defending himself and had no intention of harming anyone. During the chaos, Lightburn was robbed of personal items, including two gold chains worth around seventy thousand Belizean dollars. Today, Lightburn, who had been on remand at the Belize Central Prison, was brought to court where all charges were dropped, and he was declared a free man. The virtual complainants, Ian and Javon Abraham, Mark Usher, and Giovanni Abraham, who Lightburn was accused of attempting to murder and using deadly means of harm against, discovered they were related to him and decided to drop all charges.