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PART E
CIVILIANS KILLED BY GUNMEN
9.186.
Hearsay evidence was adduced to the Enquiry that gunmen had
killed a number of civilians in Tivoli Gardens when these persons attempted to
leave. For example, under cross-examination by Mr. Alexander Williams,
SSP Graham said –
“I had information that gunmen were killing persons in Tivoli
Gardens who were trying to leave.”
9.187.
ACP Clifford Blake, also in answer to Mr. Williams on 3 June 2015,
said –
“I overheard a conversation or discussion that civilians who
tried to leave Tivoli Gardens were killed by gunmen... I
never received any Intelligence that civilians from Tivoli
Gardens who tried to leave were killed by gunmen.”
9.188.
DCP Glenmore Hinds, again in answer to Mr. Williams, testified on
27 May 2015 as follows:
“Intelligence told me that persons from Tivoli Gardens who
tried to leave were killed by gunmen prior to the operation.”
9.189.
Mr. Alexander Williams told the Enquiry at the end of the hearing
on 3 June 2015:
“My case is that gunmen killed residents who were reluctant
to comply with their demands.”
FINDINGS
9.190.
No satisfactory evidence was led in support of the
allegations that gunmen killed residents of Tivoli Gardens who wanted
to leave the community. Such testimony as there was and, as has been
set out above, does not rise beyond the levels of hearsay and