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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 community. Everyone here is family. Sean would have turned 22 this year on August 17," villager Savita ...

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 penal­ty for mur­der. 

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 family's home at Henry Street West in Orange Valley, Couva, Bharat spoke from her heart. Occasionally she stared with tear-filled eyes i...

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 the rest of my life be­cause there is no true jus­tice for me. The jus­tice, what I want is that I...

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-Jaglal on Friday, completed her closing address to Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds who is presiding over...