Family of stabbed backpacker Sarah Groves 'desperate' to get murder trial moving again
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Ben Groves says his family is desperate to get his sister's murder trial in India moving again.
Sarah, who was 24, was stabbed to death on a houseboat in Kashmir in April 2013.
Dutch national Richard De Witt was charged with her murder but he denies killing her.
A trial started in July 2013 but after 85 hearings and numerous problems with the case, it has reached a stalemate.
Sarah and Ben when they were teenagers
"There has been literally no progress for 15 months now, no proceedings have gone ahead, so we're desperate to get the ball rolling again." Ben told Newsbeat.
Ben says there's been a range of "unacceptable reasons" for a lack of progress, including witnesses not showing up and the judge going on holiday.
"In terms of its affect on us as a family, Sarah's friends, and the wider community in Guernsey, it's been absolutely devastating."
Sarah was living on a houseboat when she was killed
Ben, who was just 18 months older than Sarah, described his sister as "loving, caring and selfless".
"She had a brilliant sense of humour and she always put others first.
"She was setting off to travel the world and then everything sadly went wrong."
The Groves family
Ben's family fear they will never get justice for Sarah.
"To try and get information out of the Indian authorities is very difficult.
"In terms of the UK authorities, I know the Foreign Office says it can't do anything, but there must be some sort of diplomatic appeal that the UK government can make to India to try and process this case."
In a statement the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told Newsbeat it has been liaising with the Indian authorities on behalf of the Groves family.
It said: "We want to see whoever committed this crime brought to justice, but we cannot interfere in the independent legal proceedings of another country, just as we do not allow other countries to interfere with our own justice system."
Ben says his family remain hopeful that justice will be served.
"What happened in the first place is too horrendous to describe - but then to be subjected to something that seemingly has no end in sight is added torture.
"None of us are going to stop until we get justice but how long do we have to wait?"
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