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died but she was unable to attend the funeral because of her injury. For
4 months she wore a splint.
9.178.
In the course of her rather confused evidence-in-chief, Ms. Gordon
said that her stepfather was shot about 10.30 a.m. She carried him to KPH “in
the morning”. She claims to have seen a soldier point a gun at her stepfather
and shoot him twice. She said –
“I saw the gunshot wounds near his heart and his belly.”
9.179.
As to her own injury, Ms. Gordon said that she was discharged
from KPH on the same day that she was shot. The wound was bandaged but
she hid at the hospital. On 25 May, the area of the wound was smelling foul
and, according to the witness, she was obliged to curse a doctor to get him to
attend to her. As a result, she was re-admitted to KPH. Ms. Gordon said that
she saw a doctor “with an injection coming to kill me”.
9.180.
Under cross-examination, Ms. Gordon became very emotionally
distraught and both her testimony and demeanour cast doubt on her veracity.
For example, she answered Mr. Linton Gordon to say that, when her stepfather
was shot, she was inside the house lying down. Further, she said –
“When I hear my stepfather bawl is when I went outside.
When I went out is after he got shot.”
9.181.
And she admitted that she had said that she could not say if certain
persons were wearing uniform because she was behind a zinc fence.
Ms. Gordon agreed with Counsel that at the time of her injury, “
shots were being
fired all over”.
She has not received any compensation for her injuries.
FINDINGS
9.182.
Although we accept that Ms. Gordon was injured during
what she described as “a war”, we are not persuaded that she was
injured by the security forces. We do not believe her story that she