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shoved Omar onto the verandah and asked another soldier if he wanted Omar.
The soldier replied: “A schooler that!” Omar, who was aged 15, was left alone.
9.99.
She saw O’Connor show the soldiers his Water Commission ID card
but they said it would not help him. She said the soldiers told Orlando and
O’Connor to run and they ran outside. She said –
“I never see them alive after I see them run out. I saw
them go up Dee Cee Avenue. That is the last I saw of
them.”
A few days after, she saw the dead bodies of Orlando and O’Connor on a
computer screen at the Community Centre. The Post Mortem Reports show that
Orlando had three gunshot wounds over his body, two of which were at the front
of his chest. The other was to his left arm. Cause of death was exsanguination,
lacerations to the liver, aorta and gunshot wound to chest. O’Connor had two
gunshot wounds to his chest which damaged vital organs.
FINDINGS
9.100.
Taking this witness’s evidence together with that of
Ms. Muirhead and Mr. Dacres, it is apparent that Orlando Brown (Giffy)
was killed by police officers on the morning of 25 May. His body was
thrown into the truck. Ms. Muirhead was positive that she saw police
officers murder Orlando. We have no reason to disbelieve this witness.
She stood up well to cross-examination. Whereas there is credible
evidence of the death of Orlando, there is no evidence about the death
of O’Connor. But to the extent that the anonymous witness last saw
the two men alive while under the control or supervision of soldiers,
the JDF should provide an explanation of their fate. There was no
evidence of hostile fire aimed at the security forces in sector 1 after the
soldiers entered. The evidence suggests, at a high level of probability,
that criminal offences may have been committed and we recommend