THE family of murdered Whitchurch vineyard owner Charles Cunningham have slammed the Foreign Office for failing to bring one of his killers to justice.

The 47-year-old's body was found in a ravine on the island of Lombok on 28 March.

He had been robbed and murdered by two Indonesian guides who were supposed to be helping him climb Mount Rinjani.

At an inquest on Tuesday, north east Hampshire coroner Andrew Bradley said one of the guides, Sukini, had been convicted of pre-meditated murder and robbery and was serving 15 years in prison.

But the other guide, Sukini's nephew Jhoni, is still on the run.

It has taken almost a year for the full details of Mr Cunningham's murder to come to light.

And it was only after the family arranged their own inquiries through close friend Keith Haskell, an international affairs consultant, that any information was forthcoming. Speaking after the coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing, Mr Cunningham's cousin, Michael Malyon, said: "We are still very unhappy that justice hasn't really been done for Charles.

"The whole investigation hasn't been run very efficiently at all and we feel very let down by the authorities.

"We've had to keep pushing for information yet we have had nothing from the Foreign Office and the police in this country haven't been particularly useful either.

"It has meant we've had to go to outside agencies to find out what happened to Charles. For us it has been very unsatisfactory overall."

Mr Cunningham's mother Daphne added: "We're extremely disappointed with the way this has been done and we'd like to get justice.

"We don't feel we can move on until the other person is caught."

Mr Cunningham's family only learnt of his death after his mother reported him missing when he failed to return from a round-the-world trip on 10 April.

By then, Mr Cunningham's body had been buried in the Christian cemetery in East Lombok without any apparent efforts to identify him.

From Mr Haskell's investigations, the family learned he arrived on Lombok on 24 March and met Sukini and Jhoni, who offered to act as guides during the difficult mountain assent.

They arranged car hire and accommodation for Mr Cunningham at the Hotel Archa, in Mataram, near Lombok, but booked the room under the name Mr Brown, suggesting the two men were already planning an assault and this would make it more difficult for Mr Cunningham to be traced.

The trio set out next morning in the hire car. But the two men robbed and murdered Mr Cunningham, who died from a fractured skull caused by a severe blow to the head. He was also stabbed in the stomach. The men threw Mr Cunningham's body into a ravine, where he was found three days later.

Coroner Mr Bradley backed the family's appeals for the second killer to be brought to justice, describing the current situation as 'a job half done'.