Antigua asks for British police help with unsolved murders

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

ST JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda (AFP) — Antigua's prime minister has asked British police to help investigate several unsolved murders there after the brutal killing of a British doctor, shot dead on her honeymoon.

The family of the doctor's critically wounded husband meanwhile began making arrangements to fly him home.

In a national broadcast Wednesday, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said his government had made a "formal request of Scotland Yard for its assistance in cracking the number of unsolved murders still on the books." Scotland Yard refers to London's Metropolitan Police.

A team of detectives from Wales, where the honeymooning couple lived, is already expected in Antigua to help investigate the brutal weekend attack, said Antiguan police.

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