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10.49.
SSP Donovan Graham called and reported that a number of bodies
were seen in Tivoli Gardens. He told Sgt. Waugh: “Go and see what you can
do”. DSP Tabannah then instructed Sgt. Waugh “to carry out the instructions”.
About five members of the search team accompanied him. Cons. Maxwell was
NOT with him. Sgt. Waugh said he was not told where to look for bodies. He
could not recall where he went but he recovered bodies “by barricades and
sandbags and on roadways”. It was about 8.00 a.m. that he started retrieving
bodies. He started “in the Java area”. On Bustamante Highway, he collected
about 5 bodies by the barricades and sandbags.
10.50.
On 25 May, Sgt. Waugh “picked up 12 bodies”, took them to KPH
where they were pronounced dead by doctors and then he “took all to
Madden’s”. While picking up bodies in Tivoli Gardens, Sgt. Waugh saw no
members of the JCF under fire. He made one trip to KPH.
10.51.
Sgt. Waugh said that there was no one with him making notes of
the locations of bodies. He only knew the name of one road in Tivoli Gardens –
Bustamante Highway. He said – “I made mental notes of the locations”. He and
Sgt. Mario Pratt, who also collected bodies, did not coordinate their activities and
they never “crossed each other”.
Sgt. Mario Pratt
24 May
10.52.
Sgt. Pratt testified that, while he was at the waterfront on 24 May,
about 5.00 p.m. he got instructions from DSP Tabannah to begin to go towards
Tivoli Gardens. On reaching the train line near Industrial Terrace, the team of
JCF officers came under heavy gunfire from the bushes near Seprod and had to
take defensive action. The gunfire lasted about 5 minutes after which they went
to the Tivoli Gardens High School instead of the community itself. In the vicinity
of the clinic, he saw two bodies on the road. They could not be retrieved