Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) on 1800 008 774.Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.Mr McAfee, who was arrested at Barcelona airport in October 2020, said during an extradition hearing this month that the accusations against him were politically motivated.
( Reuters: Albert Gea) McAfee was a Libertarian Party candidate in US elections John McAfee was held in the Barcelona prison for about nine months. However, doctors eventually certified the death of the "75 years-old inmate who had been jailed on October 4 last year, by order of the National High Court". The statement said prison surveillance professionals and prison medical services intervened immediately to perform resuscitation manoeuvres. "This is the result of a cruel system that had no reason to keep this man in jail for so long," Mr Villalba said Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessfulĪ justice department statement released on Wednesday evening local time said: "An inmate pending extradition to the United States has been found dead this afternoon in the cell he occupied in module 1 of the Brians 2 Penitentiary Centre, where he was admitted." Jailed in Barcelona for about nine months, Mr McAfee still had opportunities to appeal but could not stand more time in jail, his lawyer Javier Villalba said.
The high court had earlier agreed to extradite him back to the US, where he faces tax evasion charges. The Catalan justice department said Mr McAfee appeared to have taken his own life.
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