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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. 

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 duo’s de­fence at­tor­neys on the le­gal is­sues in the case on Fri­day be­fore lis­ten­ing...

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 on the shorts prove is that he (Mitchell) may or may not have had sex with the de­ceased. It does no...

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 ap­pli­ca­tion to stay the in­dict­ment against Mitchell, which was brought as pros­e­cu­tors sought to ...