The family of Rebecca Middleton, a Canadian teenager murdered on holiday here 11 years ago, looks like it will have to take its fight for justice to Europe after the court here today dismissed an application to have the case re-looked at with a view to pressing different charges against the chief suspects.

In today's ruling though, Chief Justice Richard Ground, made it very clear that while he sympathizes with the family, he cannot interfere with the DPP's decision because she made the right decision in law.

He said: "There is a general principle against double jeopardy [trying people more than once for the same crime], and one aspect of that is a rule of law that all charges arising out of the same circumstances must be joined in the same indictment, unless there is good reason for not doing so. A judge is obliged to stay a second or subsequent indictment where this rule is not observed."