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Damion Lindsay (Lion King)
10.114.
We received evidence that Damion Lindsay was also killed
during the internal security operation. However, the evidence of the
witnesses testifying to his death was not of a quality to permit a
finding as to the circumstances of his death as we have explained in
the previous Chapter.
10.115.
The significance of the discrepancies in the evidence of
DSPs Tabannah and Turner in relation to their times of entry into Tivoli
Gardens is this. They both testified of a large gap in time between the
entry of the JDF in the sector and their invitation to enter and search.
In our opinion, the gap in the times provided by these officers could
have enabled members of the JCF to purport to distance themselves
from possible links with extra-judicial killings, which were alleged to
have occurred nearer to the times given by the JDF commanders. The
majority of civilian witnesses who testified about killings located the
events in the afternoon, that is to say, at times when the JCF had
entered sectors.
Adverse Comment: DSP Tabannah and DSP Turner
There is nothing in the responses from DSP Turner and DSP Tabannah
that has persuaded us to change our comments in this paragraph.
10.116.
Mr. Linton Gordon submitted in his concluding oral
submissions that it was of significance that 22 of the bodies at
Madden’s were dressed in white Tee shirts and 11 wore jeans.
Whereas witnesses for the security forces testified that the said forces
were seised of information/Intelligence that gunmen fighting on
behalf of Coke were attired in white Tee shirts and jeans, such attire
was no basis for extra-judicial killings. We find that the dress of men