Ka­ia Sealy is due to re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go ear­ly this morn­ing.

The woman in­volved in the con­tro­ver­sial po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in St Au­gus­tine on Jan­u­ary 20, which led to the death of her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo and left her paral­ysed, is sched­uled to ar­rive at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port around 1:45 am to­day.

Her re­turn to this coun­try comes 20 days af­ter the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in­struct­ed the po­lice that Sealy be charged with three counts of shoot­ing with in­tent to cause griev­ous bod­i­ly harm against po­lice of­fi­cers and one charge of manslaugh­ter in re­la­tion to Sama­roo’s death. On May 21, po­lice ob­tained war­rants to charge Sealy with the four of­fences. Days lat­er, on May 26, dur­ing a vir­tu­al High Court hear­ing, au­thor­i­ties added four more firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences: pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life, and dis­charg­ing a firearm with­in 40 me­tres of a pub­lic place against Sealy.