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“When I walked out, I saw soldiers……I don’t know how the
bodies came to be lying on the pathway. It could have been
soldiers shot them. It could have been, I don’t know who
did it.”
FINDINGS
9.139.
In their final submissions, Counsel for the JCF and JDF
relied on the evidence of Mr. McLeod that he saw bodies on Chang
Avenue and civilians running around with guns to suggest that civilians
may have been killed prior to the entry of the security forces into Tivoli
Gardens. We discuss this matter elsewhere in this Chapter.
Mr. McLeod’s evidence of brutality by a soldier of the JDF is accepted
and we therefore find that he was beaten and injured by an
unidentified soldier.
(b)
Granville Roy Johnson
9.140.
Mr. Johnson’s evidence was that, from Sunday 23 May, he was
staying at Ms. Bertha’s house on Charles Street. On 25 May, about 5.00 a.m. he
was urinating in an outside toilet. He went to a gate at the front of the house to
look out and he saw a JDF jeep on Charles Street about 40 yards from him. Two
soldiers were kneeling down with their guns. He said: “When they saw me, they
turned and fired at me. I got hit in my back while I was heading back to the
house.” He shouted for one Pauline and told her he had been shot.
9.141.
Mr. Johnson said he saw blood running down his back. Pauline and
Ms. Bertha took off his shirt and “tied the area”.
9.142.
On the next day, he said he told a “heavy-set soldier” that he had
been shot the day before and the soldier suggested that he walk to KPH. He
was reluctant to walk since there was still gunfire. The soldier made a telephone
call and another soldier came with a bag, and dressed the wound. Mr. Johnson