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“They were removed but they did not reach the
hospital because they came under gunfire at North
Street and had to retreat to Tivoli Gardens High
School and overnight before they were taken to the
hospital on the 25
th
.”
10.78.
He had earlier said in reference to Sgt. Waugh and his
team:
“And on the first day when they were heading to
KPH, they came under severe and intense gunfire;
they had to retreat.”
10.79.
Plainly, SSP Graham’s evidence is that Sgt. Waugh did not
reach KPH with the bodies to have them pronounced dead. Thus, there
could be no record at KPH. SSP Graham’s evidence, taken together
with the records of KPH, enables us to find that Sgt. Waugh took no
bodies to KPH on 24 May and his evidence to the contrary and reported
to DSP Tabannah is false. Similarly, we disbelieve DSP Tabannah that
he did not take 12 bodies to KPH on 25 May as shown on the records of
the hospital. Further confusion appears in the evidence of the JCF
officers since SSP Graham referred to 3 dead bodies twice whereas DSP
Tabannah and Sgt. Waugh spoke of two.
10.80.
There is no arithmetical error on our part when scepticism
is accorded to the figure of 27 bodies. Quite simply, we have
discounted the two bodies referred to by DSP Tabannah and
Sgt. Waugh in respect of 24 May. We accept that Sgt. Waugh and Sgt.
Pratt collected bodies on 25 May but we have a lurking doubt about the
actual number of bodies collected. Sgts. Waugh and Pratt testified that
they collected 25 bodies but the records of KPH reveal that 26 bodies
(not 25) were brought in police trucks on 25 May.