Two se­nior at­tor­neys have strong­ly backed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in cau­tion­ing the me­dia and the pub­lic against pub­lish­ing ma­te­r­i­al that could prej­u­dice the crim­i­nal case in­volv­ing Ka­ia Sealy.

This re­sponse fol­lows a for­mal state­ment is­sued by DPP Roger Gas­pard SC on Fri­day evening, warn­ing the me­dia and so­cial me­dia users of the le­gal and eth­i­cal dan­gers of com­pro­mis­ing the on­go­ing crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ing, which stemmed from the killing of 31-year-old Joshua Sama­roo.

Speak­ing to the Sun­day Guardian yes­ter­day, Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan en­dorsed the DPP’s warn­ing, say­ing that Gas­pard is an en­tire­ly in­de­pen­dent con­sti­tu­tion­al en­ti­ty and must re­main free from ex­ter­nal in­flu­ence. This, he said, in­cludes protest­ing out­side the Of­fice of the DPP.