Two charged over honeymoon murder

Police in Antigua have charged two women in connection with the murder of a British couple who were shot while on honeymoon on the Caribbean island, the BBC reported yesterday.

Catherine and Ben Mullany, both 31, were both shot in the head during a suspected burglary at their hotel on the last day of their honeymoon on July 27. Catherine, a doctor, died instantly in the attack. Her physiotherapist husband never awoke from a coma and died from his injuries a week later after being flown back to a hospital in Wales.

The charged women appeared before magistrates in St Johns, Antigua, yesterday morning, the BBC said.

Police on the island did not name the women and said they could not give any more information at this stage of the inquiry, the BBC reported.

The couple were buried on Wednesday in a private service in Cilybebyll, South Wales, at the church where they were married just a month earlier, media reports said.

British detectives from Scotland Yard and South Wales Police have flown to Antigua to assist the local force with the murder inquiry.