When he questioned Ms Shuttleworth about the mark, she told him Luke Southerton had bitten the boy.

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Mr McPartland said the Foreign Office minister with responsibility for the Caribbean Mark Simmonds had told him he would be raising the issue with the Barbados government when he visited the country later in the year.

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Pub manager Mark Phillips said staff told him that the man reappeared at about 11pm with bits of bark hanging off him and flesh gouged out of his limbs.

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