There was drama at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry this morning, as Chairman of the Tivoli Committee, Lloyd D’Aguilar was kicked out of the proceedings at the Jamaica Conference Centre by Chairman Sir David Simmons.
Mr. D’Aguilar was ordered out at minutes after 11-this morning.
He was then escorted off the premises of the Jamaica Conference Centre by police personnel.
His eviction was prompted by a heated dispute with attorney for the Jamaica Defence Force, Linton Gordon.
Justice Simmons, reminded Mr. D’Aguilar that he should not address the enquiry while the Tivoli Committee’s attorney, Miguel Lorne, is present.
Mr. D’Aguilar challenged the ruling and was ejected.
A furious D’Aguilar accused Justice Simmons of being a political hack as he was escorted from the Jamaica Conference Center.
Justice David Simmons, Chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry and before him attorney for the JDF, Linton Gordon.
Meanwhile, day two of the West Kingston Commission also heard testimony from a second witness who says he was shot by a soldier during the Tivoli incursion in May 2010.
Fifty-five year old Granville Roy Johnson says on May 23, 2010, he encountered barricades on his way home from the Coronation market where he sold coal.
He says he then decided to go to the home of a friend, Bertha, who lives on Charles Street.
Mr. Johnson says early in the morning of Tuesday, May 25, 2010, he was shot in the back by a soldier.
This after he had left the house to use an outside bathroom.
Granville Johnson, the second witness at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry.
However, Mr. Johnson’s account was challenged by one of the attorneys for the Jamaica Defence Force, JDF, Peter Champagnie.
Champagnie pointed to inconsistencies in the two statements he gave to the Office of the Public Defender in 2010, and a third statement Johnson provided in November this year.
Attorney for the JDF, Peter Champagnie.
Mr. Johnson says as a result of his injuries and the ongoing tension in the area, he has had to abandon his coal business, from which he made 26-thousand dollars in a good week.
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