Formal committal for Neesa Gopaul murder accused

Jarvis Small

Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her partner Jarvis Small were yesterday morning formally committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of Bibi’s daughter, Neesa Gopaul.

At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry told the accused that they had been committed to stand trial in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature at the next appropriate sitting of the October Demerara assizes.

In a brief address to the court, the magistrate said yesterday that