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The Senate honoured deceased member Franklin Khan on Tuesday with flowers by his seat. - Office of the Parliament
THE Senate suspended all of its business on Tuesday to pay tribute to its Leader of Government Business and Energy Minister Franklin Khan, 63, who died at his Maraval home on Saturday.
Khan s empty chair at the top of the Government s front bench in the Parliament Chamber, a simple arrangement of flowers on his desk and his name tag in place, reminded all senators of the sombre mood in the chamber and the void left in the Senate by his death. Several senators wore white and purple flowers on their clothes in tribute to Khan.
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.
Sean Luke Murder Trial to start April 19
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Derek Achong
The eagerly awaited trial of two men, accused of murdering Sean Luke when they were teenagers, is set to kick off later this month.
The judge-alone trial was initially carded to start before High Court Judge Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds last month, but was put off by pre-trial legal applications over the admissibility of statements the duo alleged made to police before being charged.
Sean Luke murder trial now set to begin on April 19
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Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds who is presiding over the judge-only trial of two men charged for
murdering Sean Luke. -
THE new date for the start of the Sean Luke murder trial is April 19.
Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds, who is presiding in the judge-only trial of Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo, put attorneys for the State on notice to be ready to open their case on that day, when she will also give her ruling on the admissibility of certain aspects of the evidence that prosecutors hope to lead at the trial.
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