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A justice of the peace who sat in on a video interview in 2006 with the then pre-teenage boy accused of the brutal murder of six-year-old Sean Luke testified on Monday.
Justice of the peace Balroop Chandarjeet testified from the San Fernando High Court.
The challenge to the quality of the prosecution’s evidence continues before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds at a hybrid virtual and in-person judge-alone trial.
Before her, charged with Luke’s murder, are Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo, both of whom have opted for trial by judge alone.
The main trial was expected tentatively to begin on Monday, but the voir dire, or the challenge of the State’s evidence, is still going on. The judge has completed Mitchell’s voir dire, and is expected to complete Chatoo’s this week, after which she will give her ruling on both.
The matter continues on Wednesday, with two more police officers expected to testify. Both the JP and another police officer, the audio-video technician who facilitated the video interview, could be called back to give further evidence.
Mitchell, now 28, and Chatoo, now 30, are accused of killing Luke, on a date unknown, between March 25 and 29, 2006, in Couva.
Luke’s body was found in a sugar cane field near his home at Orange Valley Road. The six-year-old had been sodomised with a sugar cane stalk that ruptured his intestines and internal organs. He died from internal bleeding.
Mitchell was 15 when he was arrested and charged and Chatoo was 12.
Mitchell and Chatoo are represented by attorneys Mario Merritt, Evans Welch, Kirby Joseph, Randall Raphael, Kelston Pope and Gabriel Hernandez. State attorneys Sabrina Dougdeen-Jaglal, Anju Bhola and Sophia Sandy-Smith are prosecuting.
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