McCANN AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENT
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shooting from apartment buildings overlooking the Shell petrol station (see
paragraph 125 below).
71. Mrs Celecia saw a man lying on a pavement with another nearby
with his hands outstretched: while she did not see a gun she heard shots
which she thought came from that direction. After the noise, the man whom
she had thought was shooting appeared to put something inside his jacket.
When shown a photograph of the aftermath of the scene, Mrs Celecia failed
to identify either Soldier A or B as the man whom she thought that she had
seen shooting.
72. Mr Proetta saw a girl put her hands up though he thought it was more
in shock than in surrender. After she had been shot and fallen to the ground,
he heard another fusillade of shots. He assumed that the men nearby were
continuing to fire but agreed that there was an echo in the area and that the
sound could have come from the Landport tunnel area.
Mrs Proetta saw a man and a woman raise their hands over their
shoulders with open palms. They were shot, according to her recollection,
by men who jumped the barrier. When the bodies were on the ground, she
heard further shots and saw a gun in the hand of a man crouching nearby,
though she did not see any smoke or cartridges ejecting from the gun. She
assumed since she saw a gun that the shots came from it. It also appears that
once the bodies fell they were obscured from her view by a low wall and all
she saw was a man pointing in their direction.
73. Mr Bullock recalled seeing a man reeling backwards under fire with
his hands thrown back.
None of the other witnesses saw McCann or Farrell put their hands up or
the soldiers shoot at the bodies on the ground.
74. Witness I, a member of the surveillance team, stated that he saw
McCann and Farrell shot when they were almost on the ground, but not on
the ground.
75. While the soldiers were not sure that any words of warning were
uttered by Soldier A, four witnesses (Officers P and Q, Witness K and
Police Constable Parody) had a clear recollection of hearing words "Police,
Stop" or words to that effect.
76. Officer P, who was approaching from the north and had reached the
perimeter wall of the Shell garage, states that he saw McCann make a move
as if going for a gun and that Farrell made a move towards her handbag
which made him think that she was going for a detonator. Officer Q, who
was watching from the other side of the road, also saw Farrell make a move
towards her handbag, as did Police Constable Parody, an off-duty
policeman watching from an overlooking apartment.
11. The shooting of Savage
77. At the inquest the evidence of Soldiers C and D was to the following
effect.