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was shot on her left bicep. The injury was “a big hole. Nuff blood”. A neighbour
tied the site of the wound and they set off for KPH. Ms. Robinson then testified:
“On my way to the hospital, a soldier stopped me and asked
me where I was going. I told him to the hospital. He said
“Go back down. Go dead.” I went back home. I heard that
if anyone got injured, call a particular number. This was on
the news. I called the number but no one came at all. I
stayed in the house.”
7.81.
Ms. Robinson said that, later, she and a friend walked to Darling
Street where they were stopped by a policeman who asked where they were
going. She showed him her injury and the policeman said, “Go on”. A soldier
told her to wait on Darling Street for an ambulance and he put a towel bandage
on the wound. She said:
“They sent me in a van to Seprod compound and then to the
hospital. I stayed for two weeks and was discharged on
9 June.”
Adina Darby
7.82.
Ms. Darby told us that her son, Nicholas, was shot. She ran to
rescue him and grabbed a hand cart to put him on it and to go the hospital.
Shots were being fired but she and her daughter-in-law started to push the hand
cart. She said that she ran past a policeman and then heard an explosion and
she “dropped”. She got up and fell down three times but managed to tell one
“Tassie” to make some calls. Eventually, a niece in America telephoned and said
that she had contacted a soldier to assist her. She said –
“Three jeeps came for me about 8.00 p.m. I had managed
to get to a yard. The soldiers handled me real good and
take me to UHWI.”