Forensic analyst Superintendent Stephen Greaves yesterday faced cross-examination when the Neesa Gopaul Preliminary Inquiry (PI) continued at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
At the hearing, acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry allowed accused Bibi Sharima Gopaul, mother of Neesa Gopaul, to cross-examine the witness after prosecutor Prithima Kissoon examined Greaves on his evidence.
The Magistrate told Gopaul and her co-accused Jarvis Small that they had a right to cross-examine the witness. The attorneys for the accused were absent from the hearing.
Small declined to examine the witness and said that he would leave it to his attorney even after the Magistrate assured that the lawyers’ rights to examine the witness would not be affected.
The case has been adjourned until March 12.
It is alleged that between September 24 and October 2, 2010, at Madewini, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, Bibi Sharima Gopaul and Small, both of 13 Public Road Leonora, West Coast Demerara, murdered 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul. The girl’s body, which was stuffed into a suitcase, was discovered by a group of picnickers on October 2, anchored in the creek at the Emerald Tower Resort.
