Six hotel security guards have been charged with failing to help tourists during a terrorist attack in Tunisia where 30 Britons died.

A spokesman for judicial counter-terrorism investigations in Tunisia, Sofian Sliti, told the Reuters news agency that guards from the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse had been charged with failing to help people in danger in a manner that caused their deaths.

Tunisian authorities are believed to have arrested a further 14 people in connection with the attack, with another 12 people under investigation.

Gunman Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people in total when he opened fire at the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse on June 26, 2015.

Morden couple Janet, 63, and John Stocker, 74, of Stonecot Hill, were among the first to be killed as they sunbathed on the beach.

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Mrs Stocker worked at the North Cheam branch of Sainsbury’s, where colleagues raised money towards a memorial bench in October 2015.

A six week inquest into the British deaths at the Royal Courts of Justice condemned the response of Tunisian authorities to the attack when it concluded on Tuesday, February 28.

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Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: “The response by police was at best shambolic, and at worst cowardly.

“It was completely ineffective until the death of the gunman at the hands of the national guard.”

He added: “The response of staff was on the whole disorganised and chaotic, but some displayed conspicuous personal courage in trying to protect their guests.

“Conspicuous personal courage was also displayed by a number of guests.”

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The inquest heard that just three security guards were on duty at the time of the attack. All three either fled or hid, with one raising the alarm with the police.

The Tunisian police, who Judge Loraine-Smith said could have arrived in minutes, decided to detour via the police station to collect more weapons and did not arrive at the hotel until half an hour after they were first made aware of the attack.

The only members of any security force to enter the hotel before Rezgui had killed all 38 victims were two marine guards with one gun between them.

After firing two rounds of ammunition at Rezgui without hitting him, the armed guard fainted in fear when a grenade – which did not explode – was thrown in his direction.

When he regained consciousness the two men ran and hid, dropping the gun, with one of them removing his shirt so he could not be identified as a marine guard.

Judge Loraine-Smith ruled the British victims were killed unlawfully.

Following the verdict, family members said they planned to sue travel firm TUI over the deaths, which came just months after a fatal attack at the Bardo museum in the capital Tunis.