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“I heard a barrage of shots coming from the second and
third floors. Then they came back down and say, ‘You think
we are fools. You think you can hide gunmen’.”
FINDINGS
8.42.
Mr. Edwards gave no evidence of damage to his house but
we believe his account of what he saw in relation to Dwayne and
Andre. We accept his evidence that he saw a large number of bullet
holes in a wall of one of the bedrooms in Ms. McCarthy’s house. For
the moment, we are content to find that Mr. Edwards’ evidence is
strongly corroborative of Ms. McCarthy’s as regards damage to her
property.
(xiii)
John Green
8.43.
John Green lived at 30 Dee Cee Avenue. About 2.00 p.m. he was
looking through a window in his house. He heard shots and saw “residents
running up and down the place”. Three soldiers were in the park in front of his
house. On the advice of his common law wife, he moved from the window.
Soon gunshots entered his house through the very window from which he had
been looking. He took his family downstairs. He estimated the cost of repairs to
the window at $25,000.00 but he received compensation of $15,000.00.
FINDINGS
8.44.
The damage to Mr. Green’s property was caused by soldiers
of the JDF who fired shots through the window. Whether the
compensation he received was adequate, is a matter for further
investigation.