Twenty four year old former employee of Richard and Maria Stuart, Milton Daniel Maza, was today charged for the couple's murder.
The naturalized Belizean was charged with two counts of murder when he appeared this afternoon in the Magistrate's Court. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers remanded him into custody until November 23.
He was arrested on Monday afternoon in St. Matthew's Village - which is where he also resides. At the time he was driving a Toyota Scion which belongs to Richard Stuart. He reportedly gave police a caution statement confessing to his involvement.
Today inside the Courtroom before the Magistrate entered - Maza spoke freely and told the media that he is innocent of the Stuart's murder. He gave a bizarre account saying that two men asked him to take them inside the Stuart's home and show them around. Since he was a former employee of the Stuart's, who knew the house well - he did show them around. He went on to say that the men handed him a knife which he did not use. He said he witnessed the entire killing but did not partake in it.
The savage murder occurred on Sunday morning, October 17 at the couple's residence in West Landivar. According to reports, Stuart and his wife had just returned home when they were killed by two men who stabbed them over 20 times each.
The Bar Association - of which Stuart was a member - has offered a reward of fifty thousand dollars for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of the crime. The steadfast Masonic lodge of which Stuart was a marshal and legal adviser has called upon persons in the public with information to come forward to the lodge or the police. And the institute of chartered accountants of which Maria Fernandez Stuart was a member sent out a release calling on its members to join the bar association and walk with the procession from the KHMH to the St. John's Cathedral on Saturday for the mass of thanksgiving…
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