BBC Online :
A man serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of a couple from south Wales on their honeymoon in Antigua has escaped from prison.
Avie Howell and another man, Kaniel Martin, shot Ben and Catherine Mullany, from Pontardawe, in July 2008.
Mrs Mullany, a doctor, died instantly, while her student physiotherapist husband died after he was flown home to Swansea on a life support machine.
Police in Antigua said Howell escaped after scaling a 30ft (9m) high wall.
He broke out with another inmate who had been detained on fraud charges.
Counsellor Jamal Wright, based at St John’s police station in Antigua, said: “Avie Howell escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison at about 6am on Thursday along with Kenroy Laurie Marshall.
“Apparently they used a sharp implement to cut out a portion of mesh and jumped over the northern prison wall, which is about 30ft (9m) high.”
Sgt Raymond Finley said he believed that Howell, who is in his early 20s, was still on the island, and local police and defence forces were searching for him.
The Mullanys’ MP Peter Hain said: “It is vital that Howell is hunted down urgently and brought back into jail.
“He took part in a gruesome murder of a lovely young couple who had so much to give to their local community and also had a zest for life.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We are looking into the reports and speaking to the local authorities.”
Howell and Martin were convicted of killing Mr and Mrs Mullany in 2011.
The couple, who were both 31, were shot in the head at their luxury hotel on the island and their killers made off with their mobiles, a cheap digital camera and a handful of cash. They had married just two weeks before at St John’s The Evangelist Church in Cilybebyll.
Howell and Martin were also convicted of shooting an island shopkeeper, and handed a life term each.
In January 2013 Howell was given another four-year term for a burglary in which cash and mobiles were stolen at a home on Antigua just the month before he murdered Mr and Mrs Mullany.
