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Damion Lindsay
Kishonna Gordon
9.128.
Ms. Gordon, who was 13 years old in May 2010, gave evidence
that, between 2.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m. on 24 May, she was inside a house at
#1 McKenzie Drive when she heard shots. She went outside because she knew
that her stepfather, Damion Lindsay (Lion King) was outside. She heard him
scream and then he “dropped”. She rushed to him and put him on a handcart
assisted by Brittany Morgan. She saw 6 or 7 soldiers in the gully with long guns
and she believed that they shot her stepfather. She took him to KPH and left
him. However, Ms. Gordon also testified that it was in the morning, about 10.30,
that her stepfather was shot, and she claimed that she saw a soldier point a gun
at him and shoot him twice.
FINDINGS
9.129.
Although we are satisfied that Damion Lindsay was shot on
24 May, we are unable to conclude how, where, or when he was shot.
We reject Ms. Warren’s evidence which was riddled with material
discrepancies between the oral testimony and her witness statements.
She was even willing to disown her own witness statements. Similarly,
Ms. Gordon’s evidence was not convincing. It is far from clear that she
actually saw when Lindsay was shot and there is a material
discrepancy in the time of his injuries. If they were sustained about
10.30 a.m., they could not have been caused by the security forces
since the internal security operation had not even started at that time.
In any event, we were not impressed by Ms. Gordon’s demeanour
which betrayed a propensity to be cantankerous, and quarrelsome.
Her evidence that a doctor at KPH tried to inject her and kill her was in
the realm of fantasy.