Nolle Pros Entered; Murder Suspect Acquitted

This morning, twenty-four-year-old Denvoy Feliciano Bartley walked free from a murder charge after the DPP’s office entered a nolle prosequi in his case. Bartley, who had been on remand for just over a year, arrived at court on the prison bus from Belize Central Prison but left as a free man. He had been arrested and charged with the murder of twenty-four-year-old Lionel Lee Budna, who was shot and killed on Faber’s Road in Belize City on January 6, 2023, around 12:30 a.m. A witness, a thirty-eight-year-old man, told police that he was walking in front of the butane depot when he heard gunshots. Turning around, he saw a young man in a jacket and black cap. The nolle prosequi was entered before Justice Derick Sylvester in the High Court.