Constable Osafo Timmerman, who was responsible for taking notes on behalf of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) at Linden on July 18, yesterday faced questions over his failure to record body checks made on the deployed ranks for extra ammunition, which was only mentioned in a statement he gave the next day.
“Could it be sir that by the 19th, y’all realised that Double 0 or some strange ammunition was used and you were trying to cover your tracks? …Could it be that by the 19th, when you made this statement, you had to cover because you were aware that ammunition that was not official police ammunition was actually discharged by the police?” attorney Nigel Hughes, who is representing the interest of the families of the three men who were shot and killed during the protest action, asked the witness.
Guyana Police Force attorney Peter Hugh, however,
