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FINDINGS
9.24.
We find that the evidence of Mr. Hemmings, Mr. Paulton
Edwards and Ms. McCarthy was truthful. Dwayne Edwards and
Andre Smith were taken away from the company of their family by
police officers to an apartment upstairs in Building #22. All the
evidence adduced strongly suggests that Dwayne and Andre were
unlawfully killed by unidentified police officers. There is no evidence
that the officers may have been acting in self-defence or under
provocation. Such issues could hardly arise since the killings occurred
after soldiers had cleared the building, according to the evidence.
9.25.
The evidence suggests, at a high level of probability, that a
criminal offence may have been committed and we recommend that
there be further investigation into the deaths of Dwayne Edwards and
Andre Smith.
(ii)
Nicholas Wilson
Adina Darby
9.26.
Ms. Darby lived and had a small business at #3 Wilton Hill Drive.
On 25 May, during the morning between 10.30 and 11.00 o’clock, she was at
home with some family members and friends, including her son, Nicholas.
Nicholas went upstairs to fetch his cellular telephone. There was gunfire outside
the house. Nicholas came down the staircase saying to the mother of his baby:
“Tassie, me get shot!” The witness, Annette Marshall, said that Ms. Darby
shouted: “Annette, they kill me pickney!” Ms. Marshall said that she had seen
police and soldiers on the roof of a building and at that time, the area was under
the control of the security forces. She further said she saw a bullet hole in a
window of Ms. Darby’s house.