Sean Luke trial begins with 4 prosecution witnesses
Sean Luke, 6, was murdered in 2006
TWO months after they pleaded not guilty to the brutal murder of six-year-old Sean Luke back in 2006, the two men charged with the crime have gone on trial.
Four witnesses testified on the first day of the judge-only trial before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds, who gave her ruling on the admissibility of a large portion of the prosecution’s evidence.
Akeel Mitchell, 28, and Richard Chatoo, 30, are before the judge charged with Luke’s murder on a date unknown between March 25 and 29, 2006.
She admitted the statements and interview notes of both men, saying the State had met its burden. She found there was no oppression and the statements had been voluntarily given, nor were there any breaches of the judge’s rules by the police during their interviews of the two.