Bitter Ex-Boyfriend Sets Woman’s House on Fire, Twice

It’s a terrifying situation for one Belize City family tonight. Police have issued a wanted poster for Sir Hugh Andrewin, who’s accused of trying to set his ex-girlfriend’s house on fire, not once, but twice. It all started after a breakup on Wednesday. According to the young woman’s mother, things escalated quickly. That same night, Andrewin allegedly returned to the home on Flamboyant Street, turned on all the stove burners, and set a couch on fire. The family managed to put it out, but just hours later, around four a.m., he reportedly came back and lit a curtain from outside the house. As of news time, Andrewin is still on the run, and the family says they’re living in fear, unsure if he’ll return again.

 

Voice of: Hanisha Castro, Fire Victim

“My daughter and her ex-boyfriend had a dispute had  dispute in the morning and then she ended the relationship and wanted him out of the house. He refused and later int eh evening we called the police to come and assist us to remove him from our premises. Upon hearing us making the call to the police he ran away. At that time the police didn’t come so he went and at ten p.m. he came back and then he opened the burners of my stove, he opened the gas tank fully and then when he was laving I saw him light my sofa with a blue lighter and that was the first fire.”

 

Paul Lopez

“So it sounds like he was intent on burning down the house with everyone inside.”

 

Hanisha Castro

“Yes everyone inside, because that is his trend. He is a bitter person. Whenever his girlfriend would leave him he would go an burn down their houses. That is a trend he always do. This morning the twelfth of June at four a.m. he returned. This time he light my living room curtain from through the window. He open the window and light the curtain and the couch catch. So me being in a little dose smell smoke. I get up into flames and smoke. I had to take out my grandchildren and try out the fire. We manage to out the fire with water from the bathroom.  They didn’t tell me that how they catch him or anything. At this point all I know he is still out there ready to jump again. A restless night indeed because to tell you the truth I nuh sleep yet.”

 

Castro says she was given the run around by the police on Thursday night when she sought to make a report. They finally took her report after the second incident occurred.