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Antigua honeymoon murder: 'hotel security guards questioned'
Two hotel security guards are thought to be among those being questioned in connection with the murder of a British doctor on honeymoon in Antigua and the shooting of her new husband.


t is understood that the two men were working at the luxurious Cocos Hotel complex when newlyweds Catherine and Benjamin Mullany were shot.

Officers on the Caribbean island believe the couple, who were attacked in their cabin at 5am on Sunday, were the victims of a robbery "gone wrong".

Mr Mullany, 31, who was hit in the neck, is in intensive care where doctors have said he is brain dead and unlikely to survive. His wife was shot in the head and died at the scene.

Police chief Gary Nelson said there were no clear leads in the murder but that three suspects are being held for questioning.

He added: "I don't want to get into the specifics of the investigation which might compromise what we are doing."

Mr Nelson also suggested that evidence had been recovered by his team of officers who have been combing the crime scene at the hilltop hotel, but would gave no details.

According to the BBC the inquiry is focusing on three people and two of them could be security guards working at the Cocos hotel and restaurant on the night of the incident.

Police have also disclosed that there was a struggle before the couple, who married on July 12, were shot.

It is understood that Dr Mullany pleaded for her life during a 20 minute ordeal as her husband was attacked in front of her.

The 31-year-old screamed three times and shouted "help me please", according to guests who heard the commotion.

Mr Mullany fought with the intruders and was beaten around the head and legs before they opened fire.

Mr Nelson said: "It appears there was a struggle but it was over very quickly."

The couple's parents, from Swansea, have arrived on the Caribbean island to be with Mr Mullany, and are expected to keep a bedside vigil.

He was shot in the neck and the bullet has lodged in his brain. Surgeons have said he is likely to die.

Dr Fidel Fernandez, a surgeon at Holberton Hospital, said: "The situation is that Mullany is critically ill – brain-dead. There is no activity. The brain is dead. He is on a ventilator which supports his organs and without that he would die. There is no chance of survival. It is very, very sad."

Mr Mullany's parents, Marilyn and Cynlais, arrived on Antigua on the day the newly-weds had been due to begin married life together at their home in Rhos, near Neath, in Wales.

The two couples walked hand in hand into the ramshackle, tin-roofed intensive care unit. Mr and Mrs Mullany and Dai and Rachel Bowen spent 20 minutes inside.

Escorted by British High Commission officials and Gary Nelson, the island's Canadian police commissioner, they then went to the Irwin Barnes funeral home in the Antiguan capital, St John's.

They came out 15 minutes later with Dr Mullany's father, Mr Bowen, looking tearful and Mr Mullany Snr attempting to comfort him.

Colleagues of Dr Mullany, who worked in the A & E department at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, until February, said she had talked about her wedding for months beforehand.

Michael McCabe, a consultant in the department, said: "Catherine was pleasant, smiling and someone you could get on with, and relax with, someone everyone had a rapport with, staff and patients alike."

"She was special; you could always depend on her.

"She gave 110 per cent all the time. If there was extra work to be taken on she would take it on."

Dr Dewi Evans, a paediatrician, who worked with Dr Mullany at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, said: "I have known the family for a long time and no-one could wish for a better daughter than Catherine, nor a better doctor.

"She could have succeeded in any discipline of medicine but she wanted to be a GP because that suited her plans for her future family life."

He added: "There is a cloud hanging over the hospital but Catherine would have wanted us to carry on putting the patients first. That is the sort of person she was."

Kolme pidätetty häämatkasurmasta
29.07.2008 13:19, päivitetty 30.07. 14:36


Karibialla häämatkaansa viettänyt brittiläinen morsian ammuttiin kuoliaaksi hotellihuoneessa Antiguan saarella sunnuntaina.

Uutistoimisto AP:n mukaan kolme ihmistä on pidätetty tapahtumaan liittyen.

- Olemme hyvin järkyttyneitä ja surullisia tapahtuneesta. Tämä on ensimmäinen turistin murha yli kymmeneen vuoteen ja tilanne, jonka emme koskaan halua toistuvan, komisario Gary Nelson kertoi.

Nelson lisäsi, että he jatkavat edelleen kuulusteluja.

Antiguan lakien mukaan kiinni otettua saa pitää lukkojen takan 48 tuntia. Kahden vuorokauden jälkeen häntä pitää joko syyttää tai laskea vapaaksi.

Brittilehti Telegraphin mukaan lääkärit ovat todenneet pariskunnan miehen aivokuolleeksi, eikä hänen uskota toipuvan. Miehen perhe on matkustanut paikalle Antiguaan. Tilanteessa ammuttiin molempia uhreja päähän.

Pariskunta oli avioitunut kaksi viikkoa sitten. Paratiisisaarelta heidän oli määrä palata kotiin maanantaina.

Poliisin vahvimman teorian mukaan tapaus liittyy pieleen menneeseen ryöstöön, mutta muitakaan vaihtoehtoja ei olla vielä suljettu pois laskuista.

Ilta-Sanomat kirjoitti:http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/ulkom ... id=1565920

Antiguan häämatkasurmien pääepäilty vapautettiin
05.08.2008 12:39

Antiguan poliisi vapautti Ben ja Catherine Mullanyn murhista epäillyn paikallisen miehen., kertoo Sky News.

- Mies on vapautettu... toistaiseksi, kertoi Cornelius Charles Antiguan poliisista.

- Hänen alibinsa pitää.

Aiemmin poliisi kertoi epäillyn alibin olevan kyseenalainen. Mies on kiistänyt surmat, mutta poliisi kertoi aiemmin, ettei usko häntä.

Poliisi otti kiinni surmien jälkeen n. 30 miestä epäiltynä. Useimmat vapautettiin pian.

Ben ja Catherine Mullany olivat kahden viikon mittaisella häämatkallaan Antigualla heinäkuun lopulla. Loman viimeinen yö päättyi kohtalokkaasti. Heinäkuun 27. päivän aamuna hääparin huoneeseen ilmeisesti murtauduttiin ja heitä ammuttiin. Poliisi kutsuu tapausta "pieleen menneeksi ryöstöksi".

Tuore rouva Mullany kuoli välittömästi, mutta aviomies menehtyi englantilaisessa sairaalassa vasta viime sunnuntaina.

Pari haudataan saman kirkon hautausmaalle, jossa heidät vihittiin alle kuukausi sitten.

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