Canadian Bruce Vigfusson, 45, who has been in jail in Mexico since September, 2012, died at 6 pm on Monday, December 21, at the General Hospital in the
northern city of Hermosillo, Sonora. He had been admitted to the hospital in Hermosillo on Sunday, December 20, at 2 pm.
Bruce Vigfusson |
Mr. Vigfusson was serving a four and half year sentence for assault. He had lost one appeal, and was waiting on another.
On approximately August 28, 2012, in Hermosillo, Mr.
Vigfusson was the victim of a home invasion by five men. He claimed from the beginning
that the assault, which resulted in one of the assailants allegedly sustaining serious
head injuries, was a matter of self-defense.
Mr. Vigfusson passed a note to his Mexican wife, Celia Valenzuela
Amado, on Thursday, December 17, in which he complained that he was “feeling
very bad”, that he was “very sick, can’t breathe”, and that “I think they are
killing me.”
In the letter Mr. Vigfusson wrote that officials had been giving him injections, but that he wasn’t getting better, he was getting worse. He added that “they are not poisoning me so that I die,” but that “they are doing it to make me weak so that I can’t fight back.”
In the letter Mr. Vigfusson wrote that officials had been giving him injections, but that he wasn’t getting better, he was getting worse. He added that “they are not poisoning me so that I die,” but that “they are doing it to make me weak so that I can’t fight back.”
Mr. Vigfusson also expressed concern that, should he win his appeal,
Mexican authorities would then owe him back wages, which they did not want to
pay.