Wife heard gun burglar killing millionaire

The terrified wife of a British millionaire locked herself in her Caribbean holiday home after he was shot dead on the doorstep, a court heard today.

Margaret Fetherston heard her husband Tony, 65, being shot in the bungled robbery while she was on the phone to their daughter Alexandra, 31, in New York.

She rushed to bolt the door as her husband lay dead with a gunshot wound to his chest outside their home near Bassterre, capital of the once peaceful island of St Kitts.

The masked gunman tried to force his way into the house demanding cash before fleeing into the night in January 2000.

Mrs Fetherston, 66, found her husband lying dead in a pool of blood in the garden. Painter and decorator Joseph Hazel, 30, was arrested soon after the killing but denies murder.

He was identified partly from DNA on a pair of trousers, from which the gunman is thought to have made a mask. Forensic scientist Kamala de Soyza, from London, said there was "strong support" that the cloth came from the trousers and "moderately strong support" it was worn as a mask.

The trial at St Kitts High Court continues.