Breaking News…Neesa Gopaul murder trial… Mother jailed 106 years, lover gets 96 years

Mar 05, 2015 News

A High Court judge, in one of the country’s biggest murder trials, yesterday sentenced a mother and her former

Murdered Teen:
Neesa Gopaul

lover to more than 200 years in jail.
They were found guilty of killing 16 year-old Queen’s College student Neesa Gopaul in 2010.
Yesterday, in a packed courtroom and a in trial that has riveted Guyana for the last four weeks, Justice Navindra Singh jailed Bibi Shareema Gopaul, the victim’s mother, for 106 years. Jarvis Barry Small, the mother’s former lover, was sentenced to 96 years.
The murder is said to have occurred sometime between September 24 and October 2, 2010. The remains of the murdered teen were recovered on October 2, 2010, at a creek along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway days after she was reported missing from her Leonora, West Coast Demerara residence.
The remains were found in a suitcase, along with a passport and bank card bearing the name Neesa Lalita Gopaul. A red rope was wrapped around the suitcase and attached to dumbbells in an apparent effort to keep the body under water.
Subsequent to investigations, the two persons were arrested and charged for the murder.