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“I gave clear instructions to DSP Tabannah about recording
the locations of bodies and he told me they were carried
out. I never checked to follow up with DSP Tabannah...He
and Waugh told me that bodies were found by barricades on
the morning of 25 May all over Tivoli Gardens...It was a
formal order I gave DSP Tabannah and I was told it was
carried out by Maxwell. I did not ask for Maxwell’s notes.
He was under the command of a Supt.”
14.26.
SSP Budhoo gave oral evidence on 26 and 27 November 2015.
Sgt. Waugh gave evidence on 2 November 2015. In the course of his oral
evidence, SSP Budhoo sought and was allowed to make 4 corrections to his
witness statements. He admitted that he asked to make three corrections “after
seeing Sgt. Waugh’s evidence at the Enquiry on television”. Apart from internal
inconsistencies or discrepancies in his evidence, there were discrepancies or
inconsistencies in SSP Budhoo’s evidence vis-à-vis other police witnesses. For
example, whereas Sgt. Waugh said that SSP Budhoo called him and told him to
go and retrieve two bodies on 24 May, SSP Budhoo said he did not give
Sgt. Waugh those instructions. Further, on 27 November 2015, SSP Budhoo
gave this evidence at the start of the day’s sitting:
“After the sitting yesterday, DSP Turner called me to say
that Insp. Linroy Edwards was not the driver of an APC and
he was not assigned to him (Turner).”
14.27.
He therefore sought to correct earlier evidence that Insp. Edwards
“was the driver of one of the APC’s. An APC is used to insert or extract troops. I
don’t know if an APC was used on 24 May...I was told an APC was used on
24 May.”
14.28.
There is one other discrepancy to which we wish to refer. During
his evidence-in-chief, SSP Budhoo testified that he saw a JDF truck on 27 May
and he was “told that it was collecting bodies”. He said –
“I spoke to Lt. Col. Ogilvie and he told me they found
17 bodies in the Denham Town area.”