After recanting a sex abuse allegation against her step-father, Neesa Gopaul had made a third statement to police concerning the man but went missing before she was due to once again withdraw her claims, a police witness testified yesterday.
Three police witnesses testified yesterday when the trial of Bibi Sharima-Gopaul, the girl’s mother, and step-father Jarvis Small continued before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court.
Sharima-Gopaul and Small stand accused of killing the 16-year-old between September 24, 2010, and October 2, 2010, at Madewini, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
Detective Superintendent of Police Terrace Paul, who was the officer-in-charge of the crime division at the Leonora Police Station in 2010, testified that he was on duty on September 15, 2010, when Sharima-Gopaul and her sister, Bibi Redman, visited and requested to meet with him. He said in the presence of Sharima-Gopaul,
