British couple who 生き残るd machete attack 近づく their ‘dream home’ on Tobago 告訴する Caribbean 政府 for £2million for psychological 損失?

  • Peter and Murium Green were left with horrific 傷害s from 2009 attack
  • A man burst into the home in Bacolet and savagely 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd the couple
  • They think more should be done to 警告する that the 訴える手段/行楽地 is 'dangerous'
  • Just days ago a German couple were 設立する 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd to death in Bacolet Bay

A British couple who 生き残るd a horrific machete attack at their Tobago holiday home are 告訴するing the Caribbean island's 政府 £2 million for psychological 損失.

Peter and Murium Green were left in a pool of 血 after a man walked into the garden of their Tobago villain August 2009 and savagely 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd at them while they napped.

Retired hotelier Peter, 70, was left blind in one 注目する,もくろむ and 苦しむd 永久の brain 損失 while Murium, 65, was left with a 抱擁する 永久の scar across her 直面する.

Peter and Murium Green are suing the Trinidad and Tobago Government for £1 million compensation each

Peter and Murium Green are 告訴するing the Trinidad and Tobago 政府 for £1 million 補償(金) each

The couple, from Wellington, Somerset, now say they deserve 支払う/賃金 out of £1 million each for the 継続している physical and psychological 損失 they 苦しむd in the murderous 強襲,強姦.

They bought their home in Bacolet in the late 1990s and traveled over for two weeks in the sun before Peter began 治療 for prostate 癌 in August 2009.

A man burst into their 所有物/資産/財産 and left Peter with a 割れ目d skull, fractured cheekbones, 粉砕するd teeth, 限られた/立憲的な 見通し after the knife 削減(する) out his left cornea, and 神経 損失.

Murium, who has 多重の sclerosis, had both cheekbones and 注目する,もくろむ sockets 粉砕するd, and her jaw detached. Medics said had she not 回復するd consciousness and はうd to get help, the couple could have died.

Peter and Murium Green sitting on the patio at their house in Bacolet, Tobago, where they were attacked

Peter and Murium Green sitting on the patio at their house in Bacolet, Tobago, where they were attacked

The beach at Bacolet near the property where Peter and Murium were savagely attacked while they napped

The beach at Bacolet 近づく the 所有物/資産/財産 where Peter and Murium were savagely attacked while they napped

Peter was put into a medically-induced 昏睡 after the attack, had to learn to walk again, and 苦しむs from numbness 負かす/撃墜する the left 味方する of his 団体/死体.

解任するing the horror, he said: 'When I was 攻撃する,衝突する the 苦痛 in my 長,率いる was something I could never 平行の with anything else, and as I began to lose 見通し I had the 恐れる of knowing I was dying.

'You hear about attacks there all the time and people need to know it's a dangerous place.

The couple think the government should have done more to warn tourists the 
resort was 'dangerous'

The couple think the 政府 should have done more to 警告する tourists the 訴える手段/行楽地 was 'dangerous'

'The 当局 don't like me because I am a constant 思い出の品 of what their 共和国 stands for.

'They say I've 廃虚d their 観光旅行,事業 産業 and had an 影響 on hoteliers, but people need to know how dangerous this place is.'

A 25-year-old 地元の man was 逮捕(する)d but the 事例/患者 against him was dropped in April 2011 予定 to an 明らかな 欠如(する) of 証拠.

The couple also 明らかにする/漏らすd that while in Tobago they had befriended a German couple called Brigid and Hubertus Keil who were discovered 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd to death in Bacolet Bay on Saturday ? not far from the Green's home.

Mr Green said: 'The Keils were a delightful couple, we used to go for walks along the beach together and would occasionally go dancing together.

'明らかに someone crept up behind them and attacked them with a machete. When I heard what happened to suddenly made me relive what happened to us.

'When I was 攻撃する,衝突する, the 苦痛 in my 長,率いる was something I could never 平行の with anything else, and as I beg an to lose 見通し I had the 恐れる of knowing I was dying.

'When I heard what happened to the Keils I relived all that and knew the Keils must have gone through the same 恐れる.'?

The couple's lawyers are 準備するing a 合法的な challenge against the Trinidad and Tobago 政府 for £1 million 補償(金) each, which will begin after they get the results of 医療の 査定/評価s.

They (人命などを)奪う,主張する they have 苦しむd 現在進行中の physical and psychological 損失 and think the 政府 should have done more to 警告する tourists the 訴える手段/行楽地 was 'dangerous'.

Peter and Murium Green on the beach near their villa, before the attack that left them both severely injured?

Peter and Murium Green on the beach 近づく their 郊外住宅, before the attack that left them both 厳しく 負傷させるd?

The couple have not returned to their 郊外住宅 since the attack and Peter believes the whole experience has cost his family more than £470,000.

He said: 'It might cost us a lot but we're going to do it. We want to bring it to people's attention that these islands are dangerous.

'There have been several other 出来事/事件s. A Swedish couple were decapitated just west of Bacolet not long before we were attacked.

'It's a beautiful place but they do not tell you your life is in danger if you're going over there - it should carry some sort of health 警告 like on a cigarette packet.'

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