STAR WALKS FREE

For­mer State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainee Star Sab­ga broke down in tears af­ter learn­ing she was fi­nal­ly free from house ar­rest yes­ter­day, her at­tor­ney, Faris Al-Rawi, says.

Sab­ga was re­leased at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10.15 am yes­ter­day, as the State be­gan the sched­uled re­lease of SoE de­tainees ahead of the end of the SoE next week.

“She cried. Some of those tears were re­lief. Some were dis­be­lief. Oth­ers were sim­ply an out­pour­ing of emo­tion. She saw her fam­i­ly mem­bers come to her and walk in­to her liv­ing room past two won­der­ful po­lice of­fi­cers,” Al-Rawi said dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at his of­fice on Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, when asked how his client was cop­ing with her re­lease.