Assistant Superintendent of Police,NFL Jerseys China, Mitchell Caesar, maintained that he is telling the truth regarding the statements made by murder accused Jarvis ‘Barry’ Small, and Bibi Shareema Gopaul,Jerseys Wholesale, during the preliminary investigations into the death of Neesa Gopaul.Caesar was quizzed by defence counsels, Lyndon Amsterdam and George Thomas, about the accuracy and sequence of his statements after he returned to the stand yesterday. He was subjected to the continued cross examination in the murder trial of the former lovers, Gopaul and Small.The duo stands indicted for the murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College student,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Neesa Gopaul, whose headless remains were recovered from a creek along the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway, days after she disappeared.The girl’s mother, Bibi, and her lover, Small, were subsequently arrested and charged for the murder.They are before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury.They are being represented by a team of lawyers; Small by Glenn Hanoman, Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos, Lyndon Amsterdam and Zanna Frank, while Gopaul is being represented by Attorney-at-Law, George Thomas.State Prosecutors are Diana Kaulesar, Mercedes Thompson and Stacy Goodings.In his evidence in chief, ASP Caesar had stated he was present when police investigators obtained information from the accused persons, relative to the murder of Neesa Gopaul.Caesar had said that Small promised to reveal what he knew about the murder and Gopaul had communicated details about her relationship with Small prior to her daughter’s death.According to the detective, Small said that he knew who killed the teenager but that he would only relay what he knew in the presence of his lawyer. The policeman said that Gopaul recounted that she was involved with Small, but one night prior to the incident she caught him and her daughter (Neesa Gopaul) in a compromising position in her car; she asked if they were in love, they said yes and left the home and went to a hotel at Parika.Yesterday, defence counsel, Lyndon Amsterdam asked Caesar whether he had put an allegation of murder to Small before he said he wanted tell the police something regarding the investigation.In response, the policeman said that he put no such allegation to the accused, but that he had cautioned him before he made the statements.The witness subsequently revealed that he made an entry in relation to what Small told police in the station Diary at Criminal Investigations Department, (CID) at Brickdam Police Station.Caesar was asked about the date and time that he made the entry in the station diary. He said that he couldn’t recall. As such, the lawyer requested the records of the Brickdam Police Station diary but these were not available.At this point, Amsterdam asked the witness whether he had told the truth about the sequence of the statements and whether he related to the court the exact words that the accused uttered at the time of the interview with the policemen.The lawyer suggested to the witness that he told the court a different story than that which is written in the station diary and which he relayed in the Magistrates’ Court,Cheap NFL Jerseys, but Caesar maintained that his records are accurate in regards to what the number one accused,China NFL Jerseys, (Small) told him.Caesar had earlier stated that Small told investigators that he knew who killed Neesa Gopaul and when he was finished saying what he had to say, Bibi Shareema Gopaul would be an accessory to murder.”Amsterdam then suggested to the witness that the word “accessory “ was not contained in his records and his deposition which were tendered in the Magistrates’ Court. Caesar replied that he might have related the exact words or “words to that effect.”Amsterdam then suggested to him that the accused had given the statement about Gopaul being an accessory to murder before he could have administered the caution to him.Based on the suggestion by the lawyer, Caesar said that he would accept that he might have done so if it is recorded in his deposition.The witness then explained that he had taken notes in his personal diary before recording them in the station diary. He said that he might have missed a word while transcribing the notes but his statements are more or less accurate.Further quizzed about what he would not have told the court, Caesar admitted there were details which he did not mention about the interview with Bibi Gopaul. The policeman said that in addition to what he told the court regarding what Gopaul told investigators about her relationship with Small, “she also said that he (Small) was the only man that made her feel like a woman.”The policeman further stated that he might have forgotten to mention it while giving his evidence in chief. Asked whether he had records of the statements Gopaul made to investigating ranks, Caesar said that he is not sure whether he made an entry in the station diary.Caesar was asked whether he had inquired from the accused how is it that she allowed her minor daughter to go off to Parika with her lover after they were found in a compromising position. “No sir,” the detective replied,Wholesale China Jerseys, noting that it was none of his business.“I am suggesting to you that you are making yourself an imposter in the matter…” Amsterdam continued but the witness replied, “Everything I said in this court is what the accused told me, sir.”“Before 2010 (did) you consider yourself a Christian?” Amsterdam asked.“I always considered myself to be a Christian,” the witness replied.“Then I am suggesting to you that during the interview you were telling the accused that you are a Christian, a family man and about your children and all these things before she came to tell you anything,” Amsterdam said.“I had no children in 2010 sir,” the witness responded with a perplexed look on his face. This caused an outburst of laughter in the courtroom.Amsterdam then suggested to Caesar that members of the investigating team had coerced the accused into making the statements.“You were trying to play them against each other…The core of your story is a tissue of lies and made up stories.”However, the witness maintained that he had told the court “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. “
