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8.99.
Mr. Bailey saw “soldiers and police in front of the building running
back towards Building #25 and using profanities”. He heard them go into his
apartment and “a lot of shooting coming from inside my house”.
8.100.
About 6.30 a.m. the next day, Mr. Bailey saw two soldiers coming
from the fourth floor with a body in a sheet belonging to him. He said, “I knew
it was Ernie since he was the only person in the house”.
8.101.
Mr. Bailey went to the apartment two weeks later. He saw the
door shot off and blood splattered all over the apartment, bullet holes in
bedroom walls and the flooring and blood on his clothes which “were scattered”.
Furniture and appliances were damaged. Andre has refused to return to the
apartment to live.
FINDINGS
8.102.
We find that Mr. Bailey’s apartment was damaged and
defiled by soldiers during the probable extra-judicial execution of
Decorey Wright (Ernie). Mr. Bailey’s consequential economic loss
should be investigated further.
(xxix) Veronica Muirhead
8.103.
On 25 May 2010, Ms. Muirhead was at home, 12 Dee Cee Avenue,
Flat 12. This property has two bedrooms and is concrete with galvanise roofing.
It is owned by Angella Watkis who lives in New York. About 7.00 a.m.
Ms. Muirhead heard a loud banging on the verandah grill. She opened the door
and saw 6 JCF officers and 1 JDF soldier. The JCF officers questioned her and
her children and searched the premises.
8.104.
Ms. Muirhead said that a policeman took a knife and cut a mattress
in four places, pushed over a portable closet with clothes in it and smashed it on