Jury empanelled for Canal granny murder trial

Nigel Sookram

A jury was empanelled on Friday for the murder trial of four men accused of killing a Canal Number Two grandmother in 2008 during a robbery.

It is alleged that Nigel Sookram, Steve Sookdeo, Roy Anthony Sewnarine and Vishal Seecharan murdered Budhia, 68, who suffocated after she was gagged during a robbery on her house on October 20, 2008 .

It is alleged that in the early hours of the morning on the day in question, four men armed with a gun and a