Pauline Lum Fai, the moth­er of mur­der vic­tim Sean Luke, said yes­ter­day she has had it with tri­als and is now of­fi­cial­ly fed up.

Hours af­ter an Ap­pel­late Pan­el ruled that the two ac­cused in the case should get a re­tri­al, Lum Fai said she was not go­ing back to court to tes­ti­fy again even if she was sum­moned.

Guardian Me­dia spoke with Lum Fai at her Or­ange Val­ley, Cou­va home af­ter three Ap­peal Court judges ruled there would be a re­tri­al for two men charged with the 2006 mur­der of her then-six-year-old son Sean.

Last year, 15 years af­ter Sean Luke was bru­tal­ly mur­dered, a High Court judge found Akeel Mitchell and Richard Cha­too guilty of his mur­der.

How­ev­er, the two filed an ap­peal of the judge’s rul­ing. They were yes­ter­day grant­ed a re­tri­al.

But for Lum Fai, the ap­peal and an­oth­er tri­al are “noth­ing more than a pap­py show.”

Lum Fai said she thought af­ter the con­vic­tion the “show was over” and she could have got­ten some lev­el of clo­sure. But that was short-lived.

“Live, die, ap­peal, that is they busi­ness, I am not go­ing back through that, I can’t go through that again, I done,” she said.

Told of the pos­si­ble ram­i­fi­ca­tions if she did not at­tend court if sum­moned, Lum Fai said, “I don’t care, they would have to throw me in jail. Them don’t think I have enough stress? How you think it af­fect­ing me? What you see­ing on me, joy? I fed up of them, I fed up with the ju­di­cial sys­tem, fed up with the Gov­ern­ment, I fed-up with every­body.”

She called on those re­spon­si­ble for her son’s bru­tal mur­der to re­pent.

Luke, of Hen­ry Street, Or­ange Val­ley Road, Cou­va, went miss­ing on March 26, 2006, and his de­com­pos­ing body was found two days lat­er. An au­top­sy re­vealed he died from in­ter­nal in­juries and bleed­ing aris­ing out of be­ing sodomised with a sug­ar­cane stalk. Cha­too and Mitchell, who is the step­son of Cha­too’s broth­er, were charged with the crime.