Femi Harris-Smith

Devon Thomas, one of the two men on trial for the Mashramani night murder of businessman Kumar Mohabir, was positively identified by the victim’s brother as one of the persons who had attacked them.

Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former lover Jarvis Small were yesterday found guilty of the brutal murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul and both received sentences that will see them spend the rest of their natural lives behind bars.

Murder accused Jarvis Small and Bibi Sharima-Gopaul yesterday both denied killing 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul, after they were both called on to mount a defence at their trial.

Superintendent of Police Hugh Jessemy yesterday agreed with suggestions made by the defence in the Neesa Gopaul murder trial that when Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and Jarvis Small were charged, the police had no evidence against them.

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.

Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh who performed a post-mortem examination (PME) on the remains suspected to be that of murdered teen Neesa Gopaul, testified yesterday that the body was missing 50% of its head and that the blunt trauma had been forcefully inflicted.

An emotional Mohamed Kayum yesterday recounted visiting the Lyken Funeral Home to view a headless corpse, which police told him was that of his murdered granddaughter Neesa Gopaul.

Jarvis Small, accused of the murder of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul, had signalled the involvement of the girl’s mother in her death, according to a police witness.

The lead crime scene expert yesterday tried to account for oversights in the processing of the area where the body of murdered teen Neesa Gopaul was recovered, while another police witness testified that one of the two accused undertook to reveal who killed the girl but only in the presence of his lawyer.

– says top of head was missing Lance Corporal Germaine Laundry yesterday recounted discovering 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul’s corpse, from which the entire top part of the head was missing.

Ronlee Ramprashad, 25, who shot at some of his victims during a series of armed robberies, was yesterday sentenced to spend the next nine years in jail after confessing to the crimes.

Sandra Daniels, the woman accused of trying to mail cocaine to Spain in a box of nail files in May, will be spending the next five years of her life in prison after being found guilty of the crime.

An American citizen was reunited with his new wife yesterday after being found not guilty of trying to smuggle cocaine on to an outbound flight to the United States.

A suspect has been charged with murdering a Linden miner in the interior and stealing a quantity of raw gold in a separate attack and a city court was yesterday told that he was wounded in a shootout with an undercover policeman who tried to arrest him.

John Rudolph Singh, an owner of the Guyana Variety Store and Nut Centre, is now a remanded prisoner awaiting sentencing after he admitted to shooting off his licensed gun while trying to get his wife and their three children to leave with him.

Tears flowed freely in court yesterday as sentences were handed down for the jointly-charged quintet in the July 12, 2011 multi-million-dollar Bel Air Gardens armed robbery committed on Annie Ramsood; they had been found guilty on Wednesday.

Jermaine Mitchell, Rayon Jones, Chandraradha Rampersaud, Aubrey Simon, and Hardat Kumar were yesterday found guilty of the July 12, 2011 multi-million-dollar Bel Air Gardens armed robbery committed on Annie Ramsood.

Two brothers have been charged with having possession of the four AK-47 magazines that were found in Albouystown, among a quantity of spent shells of various calibre ammunition on Sunday.

A woman was yesterday arrested during an alleged attempt to mail cocaine to Canada.

The man accused of killing Elvis Fernandes on Mandela Avenue was yesterday remanded to prison after being arraigned on a charge of murder at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.