Danilo Feliz Torres, the husband of British ex-pat Lindsay Firth, and two of his sons, have been formally charged with the murder. Prosecutors are asking for 25-30 years in jail and no possible parole. Feliz Torres is the lead suspect in the murder of Firth.
On 16 December 2019, El Caribe newspaper gives details on Danilo Féliz Torres. It explains he had run in the PLD primaries for mayor in the municipality of Guayacanes in the province of San Pedro de Macorís in 2010. At the time, the political party disavowed his win.
El Caribe reports that in March 2010, the Contentious Chamber of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) accepted an appeal filed by Féliz Torres, candidate for mayor of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) for the municipality of Guayacanes. Then through resolution No.53-2010, the court ordered the PLD to recognize the rights acquired by Danilo Féliz Torres, as he received most votes in the referred municipality and should enjoy the full exercise of his civil and political rights.
But during the public hearing held on 9 March 2010, the PLD political delegate, César Pina Toribio, gave reasons for revoking the win on grounds that he had evidence that Feliz was blacklisted as part of then fugitive drug trafficker José Figueroa Agosto’s network.
El Caribe says the version was confirmed by Colonel José Armando Brito Melo, police commander in the province of Santiago Rodríguez, where the crime occurred. Colonel Brito Melo had said that four people, including two children of Feliz Torres and another man who allegedly participated in the murder, would be sent to justice for the murder of the woman.
The 64-year-old British woman’s body was found buried 200 meters from her home in the community of Cacique in the municipality of Monción, in the province of Santiago Rodríguez. The English writer and lawyer had been married to 50-year old Dominican Danilo Féliz Torres for 15 years. The British woman told about her love and struggles in the Dominican Republic in two fiction novels, “What About Your Saucepans? And “Life After My Saucepans?” for sale on Amazon.
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El Caribe
17 December 2019