Family of slain Honduran activist appeal to US court for help in her murder trial

The children of Berta Ciceres want to subpoena bank records to a luxury house purchased by the alleged mastermind of the murder

The children of murdered Honduran activist Berta Ciceres have applied to a US federal court to subpoena bank records linked to a $1.4m luxury house in Texas purchased by the alleged mastermind of the crime just months after the killing.

Ciceres, 44, a winner of the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental defenders, was shot dead at her home by a hired gunmen on 2 March 2016 after a long battle to stop construction of an internationally financed hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque river, which the Lenca people consider sacred.