—–it can’t be buried until further investigations are carried out
THE grandparents of 16-year-old Neesa Lalita Gopaul, who was brutally murdered and found headless at the Emerald Tower Resort, yesterday expressed concern over the state of the body, noting that even though it is decaying, it cannot be given a proper burial until further investigations are carried out by the authorities. Three persons, including, the mother and stepfather of the dead girl, are in police custody following the brutal murder of Gopaul who resided at 13 ‘A’ Leonora Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
The deceased was found 14:45hrs Saturday at the resort at Madewini on the Linden / Soesdyke Highway.
Gopaul’s grandfather, Mohamed Kayum lamented yesterday when this newspaper visited his home, “What will the outcome be? They said I can’t get the body now, because more investigations have to be done, but it decaying all the time.” The man said the body is currently at Lyken’s Funeral Parlour in the city.
Kayum, of 15 Anna Catherina Sea View, West Coast Demerara, said he believes his granddaughter was drugged and removed from her house, as a certain individual, who is a suspect in the matter, was in possession of keys to her house.
The girl’s grandmother, Abida Kayum, told this newspaper that she believed that her daughter was drugged along with her granddaughter.
The woman said she strongly believed that Gopaul was killed because she threatened to contact the police in relation to drugs that were being used by one of the suspects in the matter. She said the individual apparently drugged her daughter, too, as the woman has been acting crazy throughout the investigations so far.
“My daughter’s husband died and left her with so much. She messed up her life and those of her children,” the distraught grandmother commented, adding, “Me and my husband both suffering with heart problem…we now in we sixties…and now for us to get all these worries.”
The woman said she shared a very close relationship with her granddaughter and her five-year-old sister. “Even your enemy you would not treat like that. Them really cruel,” the woman said.
The mother of the deceased is reportedly at the East La Penitence police station, while the stepfather is at the Leonora police station, and his wife, at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara. 
Police, in a press statement last Sunday, said sleuths  at the scene found a passport in the name of Gopaul, together with other documents, as they removed the body from a suitcase which was tied with rope and anchored by a piece of iron in the Madewini Creek.
The person whose name appeared on the travel document was reported missing since last September 24.
Relatives told the Guyana Chronicle last Sunday that a male individual often ill-treated the deceased teenager, who confided in them that he had raped her. She had even asked relatives to take her and her sister to live with them, a decision they regretted not taking, owing to the fact that the young girl was murdered in such a brutal manner.
Gopaul’s mother and her stepfather operate a spare parts business out of their home.
Relatives said that Gopaul was the sole beneficiary of the property after her father’s death, much to the annoyance of one of the suspects, who is a known character to the police.