A Tivoli Gardens resident has testified that he witnessed a member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) collar another man and used him to smash several glass windows on a house during the 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston community.
This was among several acts of brutally Maurice Tomlinson claims he witnessed and endured at the hands of soldiers on May 24, 2010 as he gave evidence before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
Tomlinson, the seventh witness to take the stand, was also the first to report seeing what he described as “a rocket-propelled” bomb land in Tivoli Gardens.
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However, Linton Gordon, one of the attorneys for the JDF, interrupted Tomlinson’s testimony to indicate that some of the allegations “are taking us by surprise.”
As a result, Gordon questioned if the witness’ account was contained in a statement he had not received.
However, senior counsel for the Commission, Garth McBean, said that was not the case.
Tomlinson testified that after he saw the bomb, he became terrified and took his wife and three children to his mother’s house nearby.
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