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elicited many discrepancies in her oral evidence and her witness statements
including this evidence:
“I did not know on 24 May where Sydney get shoot. I only
found out after the little girl come back and tell me where
him get shoot. She told me him get shoot inna his head. I
did not really see him get shoot inna his head.”
Ms. Lindsay also admitted that she never saw some of the things which she said
that she saw in her witness statement. She saw Capt. Anderson give evidence
on 26 June 2015 and, thereafter, she gave another witness statement dated
27 June 2015 which Mr. Lloyd D’Aguilar helped her to prepare.
FINDINGS
8.91.
Ms. Lindsay was a thoroughly unsatisfactory witness, not
at all credible. She deliberately lied about Capt. Garth Anderson. In
normal circumstances, we would have rejected her entire testimony
because if she lied on one aspect of her evidence, we could not be sure
what other aspects of her evidence were mendacious. However, we
have no reason to disbelieve her on the narrow points that she owned
the house at 1 McKenzie Drive and that it was completely destroyed.
We are not satisfied as to the valuations she gave and recommend that
this aspect of Ms. Lindsay’s evidence be further investigated.
Adverse Comments re: Minnette Lindsay
The Commission sent a “Notice of Proposed Adverse Comment” dated 24 March
2016, to Ms. Lindsay in respect of its finding at para.8.91. Ms. Lindsay responded
to the said Notice on the 7
th
day of April 2016. Her response appears at
Appendix AC2.