De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is ad­mit­ting that there are some killings that can­not be pre­vent­ed, even un­der a State of Emer­gency. His com­ments come af­ter the mur­der of 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath.

Seenath’s body was dis­cov­ered on Sat­ur­day near the Friend­ship Recre­ation Ground in Ste Madeleine, close to her Princes Town home.

Yes­ter­day, Sturge de­clined to spec­u­late on the cir­cum­stances of the teenag­er’s death, not­ing that the au­top­sy had not yet been com­plet­ed (at the time) or re­leased to the pub­lic. An au­top­sy lat­er con­firmed she died from blunt force trau­ma to the head.