KINGSTON, Jamaica – A soldier today testified in the Tivoli Enquiry that two policemen killed five men in Tivoli Gardens in May 2010 and even laughed after killing two who appeared to be teenagers.
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) witness is the third soldier to take the stand. He testified that the two police officers killed two men who were being detained in a cage. He said one took a man from the cage before explosions were heard.
The policemen left that location of the caged area with soldier number three and another soldier and went to another place where they took two young men out of a house. He said these men appeared to be 14 to 17 years old.
He said the policemen took them behind the house and explosions were heard. He said he saw the policemen coming back from behind the house laughing with each other.
He said he went behind the house and saw the two bodies lying in a pool of blood.
He said he is unable to identify the policemen who did the killings.
Paul Henry
