Mcafee released in Guatemala, leaves on flight to Florida

GUATEMALA CITY — Anti-virus software founder John McAfee was released from a detention centre Wednesday and escorted by immigration officials and police trucks to the Guatemala City airport, where he was put on a flight bound for Miami.

McAfee sat in a coach-class seat on the flight, which took off at mid-afternoon.

The escort to the airport, accompanied by a throng of journalists and two police trucks with sirens blaring, marked the last chapter for McAfee’s strange, monthlong odyssey to avoid police questioning about the killing of a U.S. expatriate in neighbouring Belize.

“McAfee entered the country illegally,” said an immigration service spokesman, Fernando Lucero. “Guatemala is expelling him. Since his country of origin is the United States, Guatemala is expelling him to the United States.”

In one of the most highly publicized flights from po- lice questioning since O.J. Simpson led police on a televised car chase, McAfee constantly blogged and spoke with reporters about his life on the lam.

Dressed in a black suit and white shirt, McAfee said: “I’m free. I’m going to America.”

He suggested his week-long detention in Guatemala for entering the country clandestinely had taken its toll on him.

“All I can tell you is I’m 10 years older, and I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just going to Miami,” he said.