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he left his residence in Belvedere in upper St. Andrew, and went to Tivoli
Gardens.
13.5.
CDS Saunders gave this answer to a question put to him by
Mr. Linton Gordon:
“Having briefed the Prime Minister on 24 August at Vale
Royal, both the Commissioner of Police and I left at the
same time and I would say that, roughly within probably
5 to 10 minutes of me leaving Vale Royal, I received
information that Mr. Coke had fled his residence in
Belvedere, upper St. Andrew in a rather hurried manner and
drove straight into Tivoli Gardens. The reason the
information was so correct is based upon the fact that, as I
stated before at this Commission, Mr. Coke had been under
surveillance for perhaps two weeks prior to that date.”
19 and 22 May 2010 – Bishop Blair meets Coke in Tivoli Gardens
13.6.
In Chapters 7 and 12, we reported the initiatives taken by Bishop
Herro Blair to try and persuade Christopher Coke to avoid a violent confrontation
with the security forces. For the purposes of this Chapter, it suffices to say that
on 19 and 21 May, Coke was ensconced in Tivoli Gardens.
Rev. Al Miller
13.7.
Rev. Miller did not give oral evidence to the Enquiry for the reasons
given at Chapter 12.20. As in the case of Bishop Blair, we have already
discussed Rev. Miller’s contact with Coke prior to 24 May in Chapter 7. And
according to the evidence of CoP Ellington, Coke and Miller met in Tivoli Gardens
on 19 May “or soon after”.
24 May 2010
13.8.
When the internal security operation was launched on 24 May, the
security forces believed that Coke was still in Tivoli Gardens, on the basis of
Intelligence in their possession at the time.