One more charged in honeymoon couple’s homicides

By VonDez Phipps
Reporter-SKNVibes.com

~~Adz:Left~~ ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A third female has been charged in connection with the July 27 murder of the honeymooning couple, Benjamin and Catherine Mullany, making this the fifth person charged for the offence.

Cooks Hill resident Georgette Aaron was charged with conspiracy to make false statements to pervert the course of justice, accessory to murder and accessory to robbery.

On Tuesday, August 19, exactly seven days after a private burial service for the couple, the 31-year-old appeared in the St. John’s Magistrate Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Keith Thom who denied her bail and ordered she be remanded. The matter was adjourned for Wednesday, November 5.

This breakthrough follows last week’s arrest of two young men, Kaniel Martin and Avie Howell, aged 20 and 17 respectively, who were both charged on Sunday with murder, robbery and receiving. It is believed that the two had stolen a cellular phone and a camera from the couple’s honeymoon cottage.

It is also speculated that Aaron is the girlfriend of one of the arrested men and this may have been her main connection to the case.

Last week, two women were also charged with robbery and receiving. According to suggested statements in Caribbean 360, the duo was reportedly seen with the same items that were allegedly stolen from the couple’s room.

The British newlyweds, both 31, were staying at the Cocos Hotel, where they were both shot on the last day of their two-week honeymoon. Catherine Mullany died at the scene of the crime but her husband, suffering a week of medical complications, finally succumbed after being flown back to Wales.

Officials from Britain’s Scotland Yard are still assisting the police with investigations into the double homicide.