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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.
Court hears about the day Sean went missing
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Police reveal gruesome details of how Sean Luke was found
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Police: Sean Luke’s body was decomposing in canefield
Sean Luke. -
SEAN LUKE’S body was in an advanced state of decomposition when it was found by police and there were maggots on the face.
His body was naked and liquid was leaking from the eyes and nose.
That was the evidence of two police officers who formed part of the police’s investigative team when the six-year-old’s body was found on March 28, 2006.
A tattered-looking pair of underpants and a pair of shorts were also tendered into evidence on the second day of the judge-only trial of the two men charged with Luke’s murder.