The 16-year-old Couva schoolboy held in connection with the stabbing of Marabella labourer Akil Sylvester on May 23 has been released from police custody, pending a coroner’s inquest into the killing.

Newsday understands Region III homicide investigators interviewed the teenager on May 26, at the Oropouche Booking Centre, where he was being held, and instructions were given to release him pending the findings of an inquest.

The teenager was represented by duty counsel Krysan Rambert. According to initial police reports, the teen’s relative, 35, was in Couva preparing to return home when Sylvester, 36, of Old Trainline Road, Marabella, entered and accompanied her home.