A FINANCIAL trader from Benson was last night in a coma after he and his pregnant girfriend fell from their flat in Peru.

The 33-year-old, named in Lima as Owen Arthur Goddard, is reported to have fallen from the third-floor flat on to wooden railings.

His girlfriend Lidia Maribel Mendoza Riquez, who was four months pregnant, was killed.

Last night, no-one at Mr Goddard’s family home in Littleworth Road, Benson, would comment on the reports.

Police are said to have found signs of a struggle inside the apartment in the neighbourhood of San Isidro after being called in the early hours of Monday.

A male friend was in the flat with them when the incident occurred. He is thought to have told police he saw nothing and cannot help them with their inquiries.

Ms Riquez’s parents and sister said they wanted police to speak to Mr Goddard as soon as possible to get to the bottom of how their sister had fallen.

Local TV stations last night showed grisly pictures of the injured Brit lying unconscious in hospital taken on a mobile phone.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We can confirm the hospitalisation of a British national in Lima, Peru, on February 13.

“We are providing consular assistance.”

In 2007, it was reported Mr Goddard, then 29, of Littleworth Road, was sentenced to a 12-month community order and 80 hours unpaid work after admitting being drunk on a plane from Bangkok to Heathrow.