Relatives of Peter and Murium Greene, the retired British couple who were seriously injured during a cutlass attack at their Bacolet, Tobago, home have asked members of the public to be sensitive toward the incident, sources close to the investigation said.

Yesterday, a female relative who was spending time with 59-year-old Murium Greene, refused to talk to reporters at the hospital.

Hospital security guards said the family did not wish to speak to anyone, while members of the British media told the Express that family members on that end of the globe expressed similar sentiments.

Murium Greene underwent facial surgery for injuries she sustained to her jaw during Saturday afternoon’s attack.

Deputy British High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago Geoff Patton said yesterday he believed the surgery went well, but could not give additional details about the procedure.

He also said that the Greenes’s adopted son was due to arrive in Trinidad and Tobago soon to be with his parents, but said he did not know when he would be here.

He added that he did not believe he would have made it in time for his mother’s surgery early yesterday.

Greene’s son wants to keep his identity private while he is in the country, Patton said.

Patton said the local authorities have appointed a ’family liaison officer’ to help Murium Greene and other relatives deal with the situation.

She regained consciousness on Monday, two days after the attack.

Up to late yesterday, Peter Greene was still in a medically induced coma.

The police are yet to apprehend a suspect in the attack and when contacted yesterday, Assistant Commissioner of Police for Tobago Nadhir Khan said the police were still conducting information-gathering interviews.