For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj says Gov­ern­ment should con­sid­er sourc­ing help from for­eign law en­force­ment of­fi­cers to in­ves­ti­gate the mur­der of Dana See­ta­hal SC.In an in­ter­view with i 95.5 FM on Sun­day, Ma­haraj said Gov­ern­ment ought to use See­ta­hal's mur­der to make or try to make a dent and to show the pop­u­la­tion it was se­ri­ous about fight­ing crime.He said Gov­ern­ment should al­so try to make ar­rests in the last 25 mur­ders or so."Even if it means get­ting help from the FBI and the equiv­a­lent in Cana­da and Brit­ian. We can­not con­tin­ue like this. The crim­i­nals have tak­en over T&T. They are in charge," he added.Re­call­ing his mem­o­ries of See­ta­hal, he said she worked un­der him dur­ing his tenure as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al."In ad­di­tion," he said, "I prac­tised against her in the courts and there can be no doubt that she was a good lawyer. She was a lawyer who was not on­ly con­cerned about get­ting her point across to judge and ju­ry but was con­cerned with jus­tice."

He said there could be no doubt that she had left an in­deli­ble mark on the le­gal pro­fes­sion.The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death, he said, must cause peo­ple to won­der what is hap­pen­ing in beau­ti­ful T&T."It is quite clear that it was pre­med­i­tat­ed."How­ev­er, he asked peo­ple not to spec­u­late about the mo­tive.Ma­haraj ad­mit­ted he was spooked af­ter hear­ing of See­ta­hal's death be­cause of threats on his own life.Claim­ing he was told that a min­is­ter had said he had a sil­ver bul­let for him, Ma­haraj said:"When I was awak­ened by this news and I sat down hav­ing a cup of cof­fee, I must con­fess it all went through my mind as to whether I should not take more se­ri­ous ac­tion. What I plan to do from to­day is to in­crease my se­cu­ri­ty."Ma­haraj said while the Gov­ern­ment is not di­rect­ly re­spon­si­ble for the mur­ders, the killings were hap­pen­ing in an en­vi­ron­ment where there was no crime plan."What is hap­pen­ing at the gov­ern­ment lev­el where peo­ple can do what they want and get away with it, there is no in­ves­ti­ga­tion," he added.He said mem­bers of so­ci­ety could not be ex­pect­ed to up­hold the law when gov­ern­ment mem­bers were break­ing and com­pro­mis­ing the law.