Antigua asks help from Scotland Yard

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda, July 31 (UPI) -- The Antiguan prime minister says he has asked British police to help investigate an attack on a honeymoon couple that left one dead and the other in a coma.

Baldwin Spicer said that a team of detectives from the Metropolitan Police murder squad is expected to fly to the island, The Telegraph reported. Metropolitan Police are popularly known as Scotland Yard.

Intruders broke into the cottage where Ben and Catherine Mullaney, both 31 and both doctors from South Wales, spent their honeymoon. Investigators say that the attack Sunday morning was a burglary interrupted when the couple woke, and two other British couples told The Daily Mail that they had break-ins while staying in the same cottage.

"There have been some arrests but that was really a fishing exercise and there has been no real concrete advance towards finding out who did it," a police officer told The Telegraph. "The inquiry needs as much experience and expertise as it can get."

Ben Mullaney remains in a coma. His parents are trying to arrange a flight back to England.