Headless body identified as Leonora girl

Neesa Lalita Gopaul

-mother, stepfather being questioned

-text messages on morphine seen as clue

-went missing since Sept 24

Police last night said that the headless corpse found crammed into a suitcase at Madewini is that of 16-year-old Neesa Lalita Gopaul of Leonora and three persons are in custody in a tragedy laced with reports of morphine and abuse.

Neesa Lalita Gopaul

The statement said that the police had taken “three persons into custody as they continue with investigations pertaining to the discovery of the headless corpse of a woman with a broken left hand, found about 14:45 hrs (on) Saturday October 2, 2010, at the Emerald Tower Resort,  Madewini, Linden Soesdyke Highway.”