DNA testing found a near perfect match in the biological samples which police said they extracted from the body suspected to be that of murdered teen Neesa Gopaul and her mother, Bibi Sharima-Gopaul.
The disclosure was made yesterday by Forensic Analyst Lorrain Alleyne, of the Barbados Forensic Sciences Centre, when she testified via skype from the office of the Guyana Consulate in Barbados at the continuing High Court trial of Sharima-Gopaul, Neesa’s mother, and her co-accused, Jarvis Small.
Responding to questions from State Prosecutor Diana Kaulesar, Alleyne said that the objective of conducting a DNA test of the samples was to determine if the biological tissue of a sample from the lung taken from the body, suspected to be that of Neesa, could have originated from a biological offspring of Sharima-Gopaul. The defence has previously questioned witnesses about the
