BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A young British couple is in critical condition at the JNF Hospital after being severely beaten during a suspected robbery in Half Moon Court on Thursday, June 24.
SKNVibes learnt that at about 2:10 Thursday morning, two masked men intruded the home in which Julius and Cam Bertie were vacationing and severely beat the couple.
Speaking with this media house, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) with responsibility for Operations, Joseph Richardson said the couple was “beaten with an object and had sustained multiple injuries about their bodies”.
He said too that the police have not established the burglars’ point of entry to the home and no one has been taken into custody to date, but investigations continue.
The ACP further said a report was made by Mrs. Bertie, who drove her husband to the Frigate Police Station, and officers took the couple to the hospital.
“Officers have visited the couple at the hospital to get updates on their condition and also to gain information that may lead to the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators,” Richardson said.
He also informed that one item was removed from the home by the burglars and, because of the couple’s current condition, investigating officers could not say if any more had gone missing.
On a visit to the hospital this morning SKNVibes met with a few relatives of the couple and saw Mr. Bertie, seemingly writhing in pain, lying on a bed with a bandaged head.
This media house learnt that the burglars had first attacked Mr. Bertie and, upon seeing her husband being badly beaten, Mrs. Bertie tried to assist him and she too was beaten. She sustained multiple injuries to the body, including deep gashes to the head.
The young couple was married in St. Kitts earlier this year and the house in which they were staying belongs to Mr. Bertie’s parents. His father is a national of St. Kitts, and in recent times he and his wife spend six months of each year in his homeland and the other six in Britain.
This is the second time in just over two months British couples have been attacked in the Half Moon Court area.
On Sunday, April 11, the partly-decomposed bodies of James (77) and Mildred (75) Daniel were found in their daughter’s newly-constructed residence in Half Moon Court after a neighbour reported that a foul stench was coming from the house.
Since then, one man was taken into custody to assist police with their investigation but was released shortly after. Investigations into this homicide are also ongoing.
