Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard has is­sued a warn­ing to me­dia or­gan­i­sa­tions and so­cial me­dia users against pub­lish­ing ma­te­r­i­al that could prej­u­dice on­go­ing crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings aris­ing from the killing of Joshua Sama­roo.

Gas­pard broke his si­lence on the mat­ter in a state­ment last night, ac­knowl­edg­ing that the fa­tal shoot­ing of Sama­roo and the se­ri­ous wound­ing of his girl­friend Ka­ia Sealy on Jan­u­ary 20, 2026, had gen­er­at­ed “huge pub­lic in­ter­est,” fu­elled by ex­ten­sive cov­er­age across elec­tron­ic, print and so­cial me­dia plat­forms.

He not­ed that much of the pub­lic re­ac­tion had been shaped by the wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed video footage of the in­ci­dent.