Detectives in Belize want to question him over the killing of a neighbour 
 
 Software company founder John McAfee has revealed he is in hiding with a young woman and changing locations to elude police. 
 
 Detectives in Belize want to question McAfee, who they describe as a "person of interest", in the slaying of fellow American - and neighbour - Gregory Viant Faull. 
 
 Faull, 52, was shot to death over the weekend on the Caribbean island where both men lived. 
 
 Prime Minister Dean Barrow said McAfee was only wanted for questioning and should report to authorities. 
 
 Barrow also expressed doubts about McAfee's mental state: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers." 
 
 McAfee, 67, who had a run-in with police earlier this year, said in a telephone interview from an undisclosed location that he didn't kill Faull, though he acknowledged he had differences with the dead man. 
 
 "I barely knew him, I barely spoke ten words to him in the last three years," McAfee said, speaking on a cellphone. 
 
 "Certainly he was not my favorite person and I was not his." 
 
 "He was a heavy drinker and an annoyance. But the world is full of annoyances; if we killed all of our annoyances, there would be nobody left," McAfee said. 
 
 Other expat residents of the island of Ambergris Caye, where San Pedro is located, have described Faull, the owner of a construction business in Orlando, Florida, as peaceful and well-liked. 
 
 The dispute apparently involved several dogs that McAfee kept at his beachside villa and that drew complaints from neighbors. 
 
 McAfee said that four of his dogs were poisoned late last week, but that he didn't initially suspect Faull of having killed them, though he knew Faull didn't like the dogs. 
 
 "He did threaten to shoot them once or twice," McAfee said of Faull, adding that his neighbour was "always angry at them." 
 
 But he said he now believes government agents or police poisoned the dogs. 
 
 "My assumption was it was some kind of government action again. This is more harassment - that was the first thing that went through my mind, and still is going through my mind. What else could it have been?" he said. 
 
 Faull was found with a gunshot wound to his head inside his two-story home north of San Pedro. The housekeeper discovered the body Sunday morning and called police. 
 
 Raphael Martinez, spokesman for Belize's Ministry of National Security, said no charges had been filed in the case, but urged McAfee to turn himself in, accompanied by someone else, if he felt safer that way. 
 
 But McAfee said he feared that Belize's notorious Gang Suppression Unit, the GSU, a paramilitary-style squad that has been accused of rough treatment and that raided another property McAfee owns in Belize in April, would beat him and he would later die in custody. 
 
 "The GSU will do what the GSU does, beat me soundly until I confess to a multitude of sins, including I guess the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, and then just execute me," McAfee said. 
 
 He accused authorities of detaining his friends and associates in a bid to pressure him to turn himself in. 
 
 "Of course, and it's almost working," McAfee said. "I'm sitting here, the young woman who is with me now and who has been by my side, and trying to keep me upbeat through this, I said, 'You know, I'll just call and say I'll turn myself in, just let these people go.' And she said, 'Absolutely not, they will kill you.'" 
 
 "I keep moving constantly, sir ... and I keep changing telephones constantly, this phone will expire shortly," he said. 
 
 McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus program, has led a life of eccentricity since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that is named for him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes. 
 
 He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as calling that claim "not very accurate at all." 
 
 Last April, Belize police and the GSU raided McAfee's home looking for drugs and guns. McAfee said then that officers found guns, which he said were legal, and he was released without charge after being detained for a few hours. 
 
 He has said this week that he hid in the sand with a piece of cardboard over his face to help him breathe when police raided his beachside villa Sunday after Faull's body was found. 
 
 There were still a couple of dogs at the villa Wednesday, along with a sign on the fence outside the property reading, "Never mind the dogs. Beware of Owner," together with a drawing of a hand holding a smoking pistol. 
 
 San Pedro Mayor Daniel Guerrero said Faull had given the town council a letter complaining that McAfee's dogs were running loose, chasing cyclists and attacking people and that McAfee's security guards trespassing on other homeowners' property. 
 
 Still, Guerrero said there wasn't enough evidence for him to say McAfee is a suspect. 
 
 A shopkeeper whose store is near the two men's houses said several gunshots were heard at McAfee's villa over the weekend. The shopkeeper, who did not want to be quoted by name for fear of retaliation, said the gunshots came around the same time the dogs were poisoned and speculated they may have come from someone putting the animals out of their misery. 
 
 McAfee repeated his belief that Faull's killers may have actually been looking to kill him. 
 
 "When I heard about it, the first thing I though was, 'Oh my God, they were attempting to get me and they got the wrong white man.' All white men are the same here," he said. 
 
 Asked if he would turn himself over to authorities of another country, he said: "Absolutely. If it was not a Belizean authority I would indeed, but only on the condition they not turn me into the Belizean authorities after they have questioned me." 
 
 "That's the problem, because in turning myself over to the FBI, then the Belizeans now know where I am," he said. "The FBI has limited authority in another country." 
 
 "I am innocent of everything that they're accusing me of, except probably foolishness for staying here in the country, although I still intend to stay," McAfee added. "I'm not going to leave this country. I love this country. This is my home." 

 BELIZE CITY Nov 14 (Reuters) - Belize's prime minister on Wednesday urged anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee to help the country's police with a murder inquiry, calling McAfee "bonkers" for recent media statements. 
 
 "I don't want to be unkind, but he seems to be extremely paranoid - I would go so far as to say bonkers," Prime Minister Dean Barrow said in Belize City. "He ought to man up and respect our laws and go in and talk to the police." 
 
 Belizean police want to question McAfee, 67, about the murder of his neighbor and fellow U.S. citizen, Gregory Viant Faull, 52, with whom McAfee had quarreled. 
 
 Police have been unable to track down McAfee since finding Faull dead on Sunday. In an interview on Tuesday, McAfee said he had gone into hiding because he believed Belizean authorities were trying to frame him for Faull's murder. 
 
 "You can say I'm paranoid about it, but they will kill me, there is no question. They've been trying to get me for months," Wired magazine's website quoted McAfee as saying. "I am not well liked by the prime minister." 
 
 Barrow called the claim rubbish, saying he had "never met the man" and that the media attention McAfee had attracted was offering the American "the best possible safeguard." 
 
 "It's not as if the police have said he is a suspect and certainly there is no question at this point of charges pending," Barrow said. "The fact that this is smeared across international headlines means the police would have to act extremely cautiously in the full glare of the public spotlight." 
 
 McAfee, who invented the anti-virus software that bears his name, has homes and businesses in Belize, and is believed to have settled in the country around 2010. 
 
 There is already a case pending in Belize against McAfee for possession of illegal firearms, and police previously suspected him of running a lab to make the synthetic drug crystal meth. 
 
 On Wednesday, Belizean police said it had charged McAfee's British bodyguard William Mulligan, 29, and Mulligan's wife, Stefanie, 22, for having unlicensed weapons and ammunition. 
 
 Barrow rejected claims made by McAfee and an associate that the software pioneer was being targeted for refusing to donate to Belize's ruling United Democratic Party to help fund its successful re-election bid in March. 
 
 "I know of no individual in the UDP who has spoken to McAfee about contributions," Barrow said. 
 
 McAfee was one of Silicon Valley's first entrepreneurs to build an Internet fortune. The ex-Lockheed systems consultant started McAfee Associates in 1989. McAfee currently has no relationship with the company, which has been sold to Intel Corp . (Reporting by Jose Sanchez; Writing by Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Dave Graham and Doina Chiacu) 

 It doesn’t sound like much of a disguise, but John McAfee is doing his best to change his appearance as he continues to evade the police in Belize. 
 
 In a case that seems to get more bizarre by the day, the 67-year-old has continued to call me with semi-hourly updates. The latest disclosure: He claims to have dyed his hair, eyebrows, beard, and mustache jet black. 
 
 “I have modified my appearance in a radical fashion,” McAfee said, “I’ll probably look like a murderer, unfortunately.” 
 
 The American antivirus pioneer is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Gregory Faull, 52, an American expatriate and neighbor of McAfee’s. They both have beachside properties on the island of Ambergris Caye, about 20 miles off the Belize coast. Faull was found dead, face up in a pool of blood, in his villa Sunday morning, shot once in the back of the head. Faull had complained about the barking of McAfee’s dogs — McAfee kept 11 at his beachside compound — and four of those dogs were poisoned Friday night. 
 
 When police arrived at McAfee’s property Sunday afternoon to question him, McAfee hid, he says, burying himself in sand and covering his head with a cardboard box. He says he spent 18 hours hiding on his property before slipping away. 
 
 He has been running ever since, he says, riding in boats, huddling on the floorboards of taxis, sleeping in a bed that he said was infested with lice. 
 
 Since going into hiding, McAfee has repeatedly denied that he had anything to do with Faull’s death. He says that he does not want to give himself up to authorities because he is afraid they will torture or kill him. 
 
 He’s convinced that, while he’s away from his compound, the police will plant incriminating evidence unrelated to Faull’s murder. “The police have been to my house seven times,” he said. “I expect them to uncover a cache of fully automatic weapons, four tons of cocaine. Maybe a Soviet submarine.” 
 
 The authorities, meanwhile appear to be trying to put pressure on McAfee by arresting friends and associates, according to two sources (who are not McAfee). Since Sunday, police have detained one of McAfee’s bodyguards, William Mulligan; his groundskeeper, Cassian Chavaria; and a local taxi driver, Cesar Trapp. 
 
 McAfee said he is outraged by the detentions: “This is exactly what happened to Soviet dissidents when Stalin took power. If they could not catch the man himself, they rounded up all of his friends.”
– Antivirus pioneer John McAfee thinks Belize's prime minister dislikes him. Dean Barrow says that's nonsense—he's "never met the man"—though he does think McAfee seems "bonkers." "I don't want to be unkind, but he seems to be extremely paranoid," Barrow says. "He ought to man up and respect our laws" and discuss the case with police. McAfee has gone into hiding—with a "young woman," according to the Mirror—as the police investigate the death of his neighbor, William Faull. And he tells Wired that to disguise himself, he has dyed his hair and facial hair (including eyebrows) jet black. "I have modified my appearance in a radical fashion. I’ll probably look like a murderer, unfortunately." But "it's not as if the police have said he is a suspect," Barrow says, though earlier reports have suggested otherwise. And "the fact that this is smeared across international headlines means the police would have to act extremely cautiously in the full glare of the public spotlight." McAfee is already embroiled in an illegal firearms case, Reuters notes. Meanwhile, the San Jose Mercury News profiles McAfee's unusual background, which stretches back to his software-development days. At McAfee Associates, for instance, Wiccan employees would play the drums outdoors; fellow staffers played a game where they scored points for having sex at work. "I didn't look down on anything as long as work got done," McAfee said in 2001, though he said he didn't know about the game.