Welcome DOWN TO REALITY,Aristos ! - Couple trapped in rat infested room on lawless island wrecked by Irma have been 'abandoned by the British Government'

Hayley Dixon
The TelegraphSeptember 10, 2017


A British couple have been hiding in a rat infested bathroom with no water for five days as the Caribbean island they were living on descends into lawlessness in the wake of Hurricane Irma, their family have said.


Jos Smart, 26, and his girlfriend Julia Taylor, 30, say they have been abandoned by the British Government and are too afraid to leave the half destroyed hotel that they found refuge in amid reports of looting and violence.

The Category  5 storm hit the island on Wednesday and it has since been placed under curfew to try and restore order.

British Troops and police officers have been sent to help the British Virgin Islands (BVI), but families of those on St Maarten, which is Dutch and shares the island with the French St Martin to the north, say that because it is not a British territory their loved ones have been abandoned.


The yacht the couple were looking after was destroyed by Hurricane Irma
Jos and Julia have not received any support from the Foreign Office, their family say, and officials could not even tell Julia where to go for help when she contacted them on Saturday.

Ian Smart, Jos' father, said that they were too scared to leave the room as the "lawlessness is getting worse".  https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-couple-trapped-rat-infested-163453328.html