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13 Hrs Ago Pauline Bharat holds and looks at photographs of her with her son Sean Luke at her home in Orange Valley on Friday. - PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE The gruesome murder of six-year-old Sean Luke which shocked the nation 15 years ago is still very much real in his hometown and nobody there wants his killers to ever be released from prison. To date, residents in Orange Valley, Couva, have neither forgotten the horrifying incident nor forgiven the killers. "This is a close-knitted fishing com...

derek.achong@guardian.co.tt Two men con­vict­ed of bru­tal­ly mur­der­ing six-year-old Sean Luke, 15 years ago, can still pos­si­bly be re­leased from prison even­tu­al­ly.  Af­ter con­vict­ing Akeel Mitchell and Richard Cha­too of the heinous crime at the end of their vir­tu­al judge-alone tri­al yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds sought to pre-empt pos­si­ble calls from the mem­bers of the pub­lic for the duo to face the manda­to­ry death penal­...

18 Hrs Ago NO CLOSURE: Pauline Bharat, mother of Sean Luke, wipes a tear away as she reacts to the verdict, on Friday, in which two men were found guilty of murdering him 15 years ago. - AYANNA KINSALE PAULINE Bharat, the mother of six-year-old Sean Luke, feels she has received no justice, no joy and no real closure, after a High Court judge delivered a guilty verdict on two men accused of killing him 15 years ago, in March 2006. Sitting in the garage of her familys home at Henry Street West in...

Sean Luke’s mother: ‘I have to live until I die without my child’ by Shas­tri Boodan Sean Luke’s moth­er Pauline Lum­fai wept open­ly yes­ter­day when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed her home at Hen­ry Street East, Or­ange Val­ley, short­ly af­ter a High Court Judge found two men guilty of mur­der­ing her six-year-old. But Lum­fai said the on­ly way she could get jus­tice is if she gets her son back, some­thing that will nev­er hap­pen. “I have to live with that for t...

Sean Luke murder trial ends; verdict on July 23 MURDERED: Sean Luke, six, who was murdered in 2006. - A THIRD partial DNA profile found on the cane stalk inserted into the body of six-year-old Sean Luke, killing him, is no “smoking gun” evidence as alleged by the defence. It is merely a flare gun or caps gun, creating lots of smoke and noise, prosecutors have advanced in their closing arguments at the end of the trial on Friday. Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Sabrina Dougdeen-J...

Accused men to know fate July 23 by Derek Achong Two men, ac­cused of mur­der­ing six-year-old Sean Luke over 15 years ago, are ex­pect­ed to learn their fate on Ju­ly 23. High Court Judge Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds set the date for the ver­dict in Richard Cha­too and Akeel Mitchell’s judge-alone tri­al af­ter Cha­too com­plet­ed his de­fence dur­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing yes­ter­day. Ram­sumair-Hinds is ex­pect­ed to hear sub­mis­sions from pros­e­cu­tors and the du...

Lawyer mounts no-case submission: by Derek Achong Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing one of two men ac­cused of mur­der­ing six-year-old Sean Luke as teenagers has claimed that his se­men be­ing found on Luke’s un­der­wear is not proof that he mur­dered him. Akeel Mitchell’s lawyer Mario Mer­ritt made the sug­ges­tion yes­ter­day as he pre­sent­ed a no-case sub­mis­sion for his client dur­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds. “All the se­men o...

Sean Luke - FOUR months after they pleaded not-guilty to the brutal murder of six-year-old Sean Luke in 2006, prosecutors have presented all their evidence against Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo and have closed their case. Mitchell and Chatoo, who were teenagers when they were charged with the boy’s murder on a date unknown, between March 25 and 29, 2006, in Couva, entered their not-guilty pleas on February 12, before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds, having opted for a judge-only trial. On M...

Minor hitch in Sean Luke trial – final witness has covid19 concerns Sean Luke - ANOTHER subpoena will be issued for the prosecution’s final witness – the police officer who charged the two men with the murder of six-year-old Sean Luke – to return to court to complete his evidence. The State has encountered some difficulty in getting retired Sgt Alexis Garcia to give his testimony at the trial because of his concerns for his family and exposure to covid19. A subpoena was issued on Tuesd...

State gets green light to use DNA evidence against accused by Derek Achong The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has been giv­en the green light to use DNA ev­i­dence in the tri­al of two men, ac­cused of mur­der­ing Sean Luke when they were teenagers. De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion at the start of yes­ter­day’s hear­ing of Akeel Mitchell and Richard Cha­too’s judge-alone tri­al, High Court judge Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds dis­missed an ap­pli­ca�...