British tourist ‘stable’ after shark attack off Caribbean island

The man, named by local authorities as Peter Smith, 64 was savaged 10 metres off the shore  on the north coast of Tobago on Friday morning

The man was said to have been holidaying on the island with his wife and friends (Alamy/PA)

A British tourist is in a “stable” condition in intensive care, with his wife at his side, after being seriously injured in a shark attack off a Caribbean island.

The man, named by local authorities as Peter Smith, 64, from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, was savaged 10 metres off the shore near the Starfish Hotel in Courland Bay, on the north coast of Tobago on Friday morning.