Latest update June 1st, 2026 12:37 AM
Alleged arsonist caught after one year on the run
Stanley Griffith, who torched his former lover’s house at 296 Section ‘C’ Turkeyen on September 11, 2009, and who was evading the police has been caught and is in police custody.
According to reports, the man was held in connection with an alleged theft that occurred at a house he was staying at in La Grange, West Bank Demerara and was later turned over to the police.
The man had ended a relationship with his reputed, wife Victorine Ifill-Griffith, on a sour note and decided to seek vengeance by burning the property they shared.
When this newspaper contacted Victorine Ifill-Griffith, she said that since her ex-lover was held in the lock-up she was able to have a comfortable rest.
“I am his third wife, and we lived together for three years and this man was very abusive….When we got problems he use to sleep with a knife under his pillow,” she said.
The distressed woman said that seven persons including Stanley’s daughter lived in the house before it was torched.
“I need to get justice, he destroyed my life, home, and everything….I tried to rebuild my house but I need help. I have no one to help me. If anyone can help me I would welcome it.”
She explained that during her relationship with Stanley she was abused physically, emotionally and financially. “He does use out the money I gave him to spend on the house and he beg me for money all the time…I put money in he hand and he converted it to his own uses, when I ask him back for it he ask me if I want he to go thief. I hope they lock he up for the wrong things he do to my life, he cruel!”
“This man said to me that all women are bitches and he married me because a man has a right to shares in whatever a woman has.”
Neighbours in the vicinity had reported that the man was seen leaving the building minutes before the blaze erupted.
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