Mother hopes for justice as retrial opens in Dominican Republic

A Cambridgeshire mother in her 90s hopes a retrial in the Dominican Republic will finally bring justice for her daughter. Lindsay de Feliz, 64, was found in a shallow grave near her north-west Dominican Republic home in December 2019. Her mother, Shirley Firth, who will be 94 next month and lives in a small Huntingdon village, said she is astonished and pleased the retrial is proceeding and hopes new vital evidence will be presented.

De Feliz’s husband, his two sons and a fourth man were acquitted at an earlier trial. That acquittal was appealed to the country’s supreme court, which has ruled there should be a new trial before three different judges. De Feliz worked in the UK as a marketing manager before leaving in 2002 to pursue scuba diving, eventually settling in the Dominican Republic and marrying in 2005.

After being shot in the throat during a 2006 robbery she could no longer work as a diving instructor and turned to writing, publishing two memoirs, What About Your Saucepans?

Dominican Republic, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

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