Five years after Bibi Shareema Gopaul and her former lover, Barry Small were sentenced to a combined total of 202 years in prison for the murder of her 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul, an appeal in the matter will come up for hearing on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 09:00h at the Court of Appeal.
Murdered: Neesa Gopaul
Following a trial at the High Court in Demerara, in March 2015, the mother and Small were found guilty of the murder of the teenager on October 2, 2010. While Gopaul was sentenced to 106 years in prison, Small was handed a 96-year jail sentence by Judge Navindra Singh.
Shortly after the verdict, the two killers had expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict, claiming that they were not given a fair trial. They had accused the Judge of taking a political side and admitting prejudicial evidence for the jury’s consideration.
Convicted killer Bibi Gopaul
The decomposed and headless remains of the younger Gopaul, a former student of Queen’s College, was found stuffed in a suitcase in a creek along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. Also discovered were a passport and a bank card that bore her name.
The suitcase was wrapped with rope and attached to dumbbells in an apparent effort to keep the young woman’s body submerged. The former QC student was found weeks after she was reported missing from her Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home.
Convicted killer Barry Small
Her cause of death was given as multiple blunt force trauma to the head.
