The mansion-lined streets of Lance Aux Epines sit a stone’s throw from Grenada’s pristine white sandy beaches and a yacht marina.

A gated community, and one of the paradise island’s most affluent neighbourhoods, it’s home to the elite and a sought-after destination for wealthy tourists seeking luxury stays in grand private residences.

But recently the tropical idyll in the island's exclusive neighbourhood has been shattered by the mysterious death of British father-of-one Andrew Frederick, found in a pool of blood in the living room of his family’s holiday home.

The body of the 47-year-old luxury property manager from west London was discovered on January 4, days after he told his family he believed an intruder had broken into his house when he was out.  

On the night that Andrew died, visitors staying at holiday lodges along the picturesque Prickly Bay, situated just yards from his home, told a security guard they heard disturbing 'cries for help' from the direction of his house.

The Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) launched an investigation into the death but Andrew's parents became concerned after detectives claimed their son had fallen from the room's mezzanine level and dismissed blood at the scene – including bloody handprints and shoeprints – as the Italian aperitif 'Campari' and 'patterns on the tiles'.

His heartbroken family immediately commissioned a private post-mortem examination, conducted by a leading pathologist in the West Indies, Professor Hubert Daisley, who found that Andrew had been violently assaulted, with numerous injuries including on his back, his head and a 'defensive wound' on his arm. He may also have been tortured as his big toenail had been removed. 

Five months later, Grenadian authorities closed their investigation and ruled the death as 'accidental'.

But an inquest at west London coroner's court was suspended in September after senior coroner Lydia Brown acknowledged the findings of Prof Daisley's post-mortem and announced that the Metropolitan Police had begun an investigation into his 'unascertained' death.

The Crime Desk can reveal Scotland Yard detectives are now preparing to travel to Grenada to investigate the case, amid claims it was covered up to protect the island's holiday haven reputation.

'From day one, the police had already decided it was an accidental death, just "a trip and a fall",' says Andrew's father in a heartbreaking interview, the first given to a British newspaper.

'To me, if a police officer goes to a crime scene, sees blood and says it's Campari, and says bloody handprints are just patterns in the tiles, that is deeply concerning.'

We meet Andrew's parents in their apartment in Grenada, where they have been staying since receiving the devastating news of their son's death.

Soon after they take us to their seafront holiday home in Lance Aux Epines, where Andrew had been staying, to show us the scene. 

In the elegantly decorated living room are white leather sofas, a long dining table and a grand staircase leading to a mezzanine level.

It resembles a scene from the Netflix luxury real estate series Selling Sunset, but on closer inspection the reality is chilling.

Marking the grey tiled flooring, at the feet of a two-seater sofa, is a large dark stain, spreading out in three directions. It is unmistakably the colour of congealed blood.

The dark maroon stain is the focal point of a preserved 'crime scene' where Andrew, their 'bubbly, caring' son, was found dead.

Entrances to the room remain locked off and the interior can only be viewed from outside through glass windows.

While bloodied marks, identified by a private investigator as shoeprints, remain on the wooden staircase.

Police allegedly refused to tape off or guard the property following Andrew's death, forcing the family to contain the evidence themselves in the hope that British authorities will be able to investigate.

On January 2, Andrew had visited his grandparents who live just a short drive away. After returning home that evening he rang his mother in west London, and girlfriend in the US.

They discussed his day at work and what he had eaten for dinner. Little did his girlfriend and mother know that this ordinary chat would be the last time they ever heard from him.

It was uncharacteristic for Andrew to go a day without messaging or calling his family. So after two days and repeated attempts to reach him proved unsuccessful, the family grew concerned and on January 4 requested a friend force entry into his house.

They watched via video call as it was revealed the back door had been left wide open and the usually spotless property had been ransacked, with broken glass and a knife block on the floor of the kitchen.

Left feeling deeply troubled by the subsequent RGPF investigation, the family hired their own private investigator, a former detective in the force, who later described the police work as 'beyond incompetent'.

While a lawyer familiar with the case, Jerry Edwin, who has worked extensively on murder cases on the island, accused the police of demonstrating a “bristling hostility” towards the Fredericks.

He adds: 'In all my years I've never seen an investigation run like this. The Frederick family has pretty much been left to fend for themselves.'

The family and their supporters believe that Grenada’s reputation as a paradise honeymoon island could be at the heart of the police’s alleged lack of enthusiasm.

Grenada prides itself on being one of the safest countries in the Caribbean, with an estimated 500,000 people flocking to its shores every year to enjoy its pristine beaches, picturesque waterfalls and luxury hotels.

Tourism is worth £290million to the tiny country's economy and local legal sources told us this is why they believe authorities were reluctant to open a murder inquiry involving a foreigner, instead preferring to 'brush it under the carpet' to keep violent crime statistics down.

'They always say Grenada is a safe country, it is the safest country in the Caribbean. But it is not,' says Andrew's father.

For more than a decade, cases have been recorded of Brits being murdered or found dead in suspicious circumstances in the Caribbean, with experts warning that they are seen as wealthy, 'soft targets' for local criminals.

A local legal source tells us: 'We remain to know what happened in Andrew's case. But it is the age-old case that foreigners with wealth are a target.

'There have been a spate of break-ins in the Lance Aux Epines area, it is not uncommon. There are around four very wealthy regions in Grenada, and Lance Aux Epines is one of them.

'Crucially, Andrew had been living alone in a very large home. That could have made him a target.'

After watching the harrowing scenes unfold, Andrew's distraught parents booked the first flight out and left for Grenada the very next day.

His father says: 'As soon as we arrived, we went to the police station.

'The officer told me, 'It was just a trip and a fall, nothing to see here.'

'I asked him, 'What about all the red liquid?'

'He said, 'That's Campari.' What I saw and what we all saw, was blood.

'At the scene, we pointed out bloody handprints and the same officer who told me the blood was Campari now said the handprints were just the patterns on the tiles.

'He bent down to show us. But the tiles were plain and had no pattern. The only marks on them were handprints in blood.

'The pathologist [hired by Andrew’s family] had it tested a few days later and proved it was blood.

'Initially, the officer said it wasn't a murder, and so they didn't treat it as a crime scene.

'The police then said Andrew had fallen from the balcony. But there were bloody shoeprints on the stairs.'

The suggestion that Andrew fell from the balcony is contradicted by the autopsy, conducted by Professor Daisley, which found no fractures or broken bones.

The family's private investigator also assessed the scene, where he found bloody handprints on the floor and table legs, as well as bloody shoeprints from trainers.

The former senior officer, who does not wish to be named, told us: 'My expertise is in shoeprint identification. When I went to the stairs I saw prints on the steps.

'They were bloody shoeprints, with indents on them like those you would find on a sneaker.

'And what was on the chair legs and on the floor underneath the table were bloody handprints.

'From what I could summarise from that limited inspection something was not right.

'I instantly called an advisor to the Prime Minister and told him 'please get the officers to go back to the scene because what they are saying they saw at the scene is not that'.

'They were claiming it was an accident, but that was foolishness. Just from going onto the scene I could tell you plain out it's more than that.'

In a tour of their home, Andrew's parents showed us a polished wooden dresser covered in tributes, including framed pictures of him with his then baby daughter and childhood snaps of their son as a youngster with his sister.

In one picture four-year-old Andrew, wearing a pristine white PE kit, beams with pride at the camera as he holds his younger sister's hand during their first sports day at primary school in west London.

Andrew isn't smiling because he won the race, in fact he finished last, but because he fulfilled a duty he would uphold for the rest of his life – looking out for his family.

'Everyone had started running and Andrew was in the lead. He could have won, but he turned back, saw his little sister still at the start line, and ran all the way back to get her,' his father recalls.

'He grabbed her hand and ran the race with her. From that age he was always naturally caring.'

Speaking of his relationship with his sister, Andrew's father says: 'They were close in age so looking back I think "why did we even treat him as the older one?"' he says.

'But really he just did that naturally. He always acted as an older brother, and they were really close.

'He was always there for his family, whenever they were in need, not just the four of us, and especially his grandparents.'

He adds: 'His grandparents relied on him completely. Whether it was their phone, their shopping or their medication, he made sure they were taken care of.

'Andrew had an easy going nature and loved life.

'He always gave to the less fortunate.

'He was a doting father. He would stay up all night with his daughter.'

A short drive from Lance Aux Epines, at a makeshift garage, Andrew's loss is being felt by close friend Anslem Blackman.

Andrew, or Drew as his friends called him, was the godfather to Anslem's six-year-old son.

He tells us: ‘My son asked me recently, “my godfather has died? Did they kill my godfather?”

'He [Andrew] was like family. Every Saturday morning Andrew would come here and we would sit under the mango tree and talk for hours.

'We met because he came here with a punctured tyre, but it turned into a ten-year friendship.'

Anslem chokes back tears and adds: 'He was just a cool guy, a real friend. A nice loving fella, always making you laugh.'

In the past nine months the family have attempted to meet with both British and Grenadian officials, including Grenada's prime minister Dickon Mitchell, only to have their concerns unanswered.

However, British authorities eventually requested for Andrew's body to be exhumed and repatriated to the UK in August after lobbying by his family.

A post-mortem examination was due to be carried out, but in a bizarre twist the Metropolitan Police reported that all of Andrew's organs as well as parts of his neck were missing from his body – something the family were unaware of.

Despite persistent questions posed to La Qua funeral home, where the body was held until being released for burial, they have failed to provide an answer on the whereabouts of the organs.

Staff claimed they are unable to embalm a body that is part of a police investigation and say the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition when they received it.

Though the family question this as Andrew's body had been taken to La Qua on January 4, less than two days from when he is thought to have died.  

In a statement, the Met Police have confirmed detectives have contacted the RGPF to 'offer assistance and discuss how the investigation can be progressed'.

'Mr Frederick's family are being supported by specialist officers,' a spokesman for the Met Police said.

'No arrests have been made at this stage and enquiries are ongoing.'

The RGPF declined to comment, stating that their investigation has been completed and the matter is now for a Coroner's Inquest.

But for Andrew's family, until the questions around his tragic death are finally answered they will never be able to properly mourn his passing.

'I cannot bring myself to wear anything but black,' his mum says as she clutches a treasured framed photo of Andrew smiling.

'Wearing colour would feel like saying everything is okay, that everything is resolved. But it's not.'