T&T prosecutors boycott court following the assassination of colleague
State prosecutors in Trinidad are not only demanding stepped-up security for them and other staff but are also staying away from courts in Trinidad this week following the brutal New Year's Eve assassination of a special prosecutor hours after authorities had imposed a state of emergency measures to help curb an upsurge in violent crime.
Attorney Randal Hector was gunned down just after leaving a late-night mass at a church in the capital. The attorney/pastor had just finished preaching the main sermon and was on his way to his vehicle with his family when he was shot several times by two men in an SUV. The motive for the killing remains unclear, but his assassination has sent such a high level of shock and trauma in the prosecutorial community that they are boycotting courts this week while pressing authorities to provide them with improved security. It is uncertain how long the boycott will last. Hector was the last of 625 people murdered in the federation with Tobago the pr...