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Funeral Home. At Taylor’s, the settled process that obtained at Madden’s was
employed.
Attempts at Identification
14.82.
In the following week, two centres were established at the
Community Centre in Tivoli Gardens and the Denham Town police station, to
facilitate family members’ viewing of photographs of bodies. This exercise lasted
7 days. On completion, 67 bodies were identified, 6 were not identified – giving
a total of 73 bodies.
11 June 2010
14.83.
On 11 June, all bodies were x-rayed at the hospital. A temporary
mortuary was set up at Norman Road for post mortem examinations to be
conducted on decomposed bodies by Dr. Rao “in the presence of Dr. Marcia
Mendonca, an independent observer secured by Mr. Witter.” Simultaneously,
Supt. Stewart was at the Spanish Town Hospital mortuary in charge of bodies
there. Two other overseas independent observers, Dr. Maria Morcillo and
Dr. Michael Pollaman were with Supt. Stewart. Dr. Morcillo subsequently joined
Supt. Brown-Ellis’ team. The whole process took two weeks.
5 June to 11 July
14.84.
During this period, “73 bodies were autopsied”. At Norman Road,
nine (9) bodies had to be re-autopsied because the name tags placed on them
after identification by relatives, had disintegrated.
Numbering after Second Autopsy
14.85.
The nine bodies were given temporary GZ numbers as follows:
(i)
GZ TA – Unidentified
(ii)
GZ 10 – Lavinia Wilson