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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 Moonilal told Sunday Newsday.
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 in the direction of the nearby bushy area where Sean s body was discovered.
5 Hrs Ago Pauline Bharat, mother of murdered six-year-old Sean Luke, testified on Friday from the San Fernando High Court. - Lincoln Holder PAULINE Bharat, mother of murdered six-year-old Sean Luke, on Friday began her testimony at the trial of the two men accused of killing him, identifying one of them. Bharat – she said she was divorced and no longer used the name Lumfai – testified virtually from the San Fernando High Court. She identified Akeel Mitchell from a screen set up in the courtroom which shows the participants in the virtual trial using the Microsoft Teams platform. Mitchell and Richard Chatoo are before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds at a judge-only trial. They are charged with Luke’s murder on a date unknown between March 25 and 29, 2006. Luke’s body was found on March 28, in a bushy area in the cane field close to his home.