At least one of three security guards at an Antigua hotel where a British couple were shot dead on their honeymoon may have been asleep at the time, according to testimony in the trial of two men charged in the killing.

Two men will face separate trials for a killing spree that included a newly-wed British couple, a judge in Antigua ruled today.

A yacht skipper has been shot dead on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Shot bridegroom Benjamin Mullany is to be flown home from the intensive care unit where he is being treated, police said today.