Brit, 26, found dead with gunshot wounds while holidaying on Caribbean island
A British man has been found dead on a Caribbean island with multiple gunshot wounds.
Kernelle O’Flaherty, 26, was holidaying in St Lucia when he was fatally gunned down in Garrand, Babonneau late on Tuesday evening.
Police responded to reports after a body was found on a road at around 10.50pm.
Apparent gunshot wounds were discovered on O’Flaherty, according to a statement from the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF).
He was later pronounced dead at the scene by emergency teams.
O’Flaherty, who had been living in Anguilla, is believed to have been on a trip to Saint Lucia at the time of the alleged attack.
He is originally from London. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding O’Flaherty’s death.
A police source said: ‘We are urging anyone with information to contact the major crimes unit.
‘We would like to know who he was visiting and why was he in the area. We have very little information about the victim.
Kenrelle O’Flaherty, 26, was holidaying in St Lucia when he was fatally gunned down in Garrand, Babonneau late on Tuesday evening (stock image of a beach in Saint Lucia)
‘All we know is that he was British and visiting from an island nearby. We need to get to the bottom of this immediately.’
A second shooting also occurred just days earlier, according to local media.
On Sunday, a minibus driver was shot during an alleged robbery attempt in Morne Du Don around 9pm.
The victim remains in a critical condition in hospital.
It comes after earlier this year a British baby boy died in a tragic accident during a family holiday to St Lucia.
Seven-month-old Tommy Taylor-Mclean fell off of a bed on the first day of the trip, East London Coroner’s Court has heard.
The tot, from Upminster, Havering, was tragically pronounced dead in a hospital on the island on April 2.
An inquest was opened in Walthamstow on Wednesday, April 9, after his body was repatriated to the UK.
Senior coroner Graeme Irvine said he would ask the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to help obtain key evidence gathered by the authorities in St Lucia.
He told the court: ‘I will be very clear. Coroners in England and Wales have legal powers to require evidence from persons and organisations. Regrettably, those powers cease at the borders of England and Wales.
‘I have to rely on diplomatic channels to get evidence from foreign jurisdictions.’