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Judge allows DNA evidence in Sean Luke murder trial Sean Luke - Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence will form part of the prosecution’s case against the two men indicted for the murder of six-year-old Sean Luke in 2006. Opposition to the admission of the DNA evidence came from one of the men charged with the boy’s murder in the form of a motion to stay the indictment against him because of the delay by the State to disclose the evidence, but this was shot down by the judge presiding over the trial. On Wednesday, Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds ruled she did not agree that Akeel Mitchell wo...

Sean Luke accused makes third attempt to stop his trial Sean Luke - ATTORNEYS for Akeel Mitchell have, for the third time in as many months, asked for the indictment against him for the murder of six-year-old Sean Luke to be stayed. This time, they have concerns about the fairness of Mitchell’s trial because of the timing of the disclosure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence, some 16 years after he was charged. Although accused of “ambushing” the proceedings with the motion to stay the indictment, Mitchell’s lead attorney, Mario Merritt, said it could only be done after the State...

Sean Luke trial: One accused to object to DNA evidence Sean Luke, 6, was murdered in 2006. ONE of the men charged with the brutal murder of six-year-old Sean Luke intends to object to the admissibility of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) evidence, while the second man will give evidence at the trial. Wednesday’s sitting of the virtual trial of Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo ended before lunch because of the unavailability of the witness scheduled for the day, police officer Leith Jones. He had to be tested for covid19 after a colleague tested positive for the virus. Nevertheless, two witnes...

Pathologist still traumatised by Sean Luke autopsy by Derek Achong Even af­ter 15 years and hun­dreds of au­top­sies, foren­sic pathol­o­gist Dr Es­lyn Mc­Don­ald-Bur­ris is still trau­ma­tised by her work in the mur­der case of six-year-old Sean Luke. Mc­Don­ald-Bur­ris made the ad­mis­sion yes­ter­day, as she took the wit­ness stand in the vir­tu­al judge-alone tri­al of Akeel Mitchell and Richard Cha­too, who are ac­cused of com­mit­ting the crime as teenagers. Re­spond­ing to whether she had seen me­dia re­ports on the start of the case, Mc­Don­ald-Bur­...

Sean Luke, 6, was murdered in 2006. FORENSIC pathologist Dr Easlyn McDonald-Burris on Monday provided harrowing details of the injuries that contributed to the brutal death of six-year-old Sean Luke. She admitted the boy’s autopsy traumatised her, and, 15 years and hundreds of autopsies later, still had an effect on her. Mc Donald-Burris spent all of Monday testifying at the trial of the two men – Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo – charged with Luke’s murder sometime between March 25 and 29, 2006. Luke was sodomised with a sugar cane stalk that ruptured his intestines and internal ...