'CORPSES WERE LEFT IN HEAPS'.Byline: GEORGE JACKSON George Jackson may refer to:
A WITNESS told the Saville Inquiry yesterday that he saw bodies stacked five or six high being taken to hospital after the Bloody Sunday Bloody Sunday (1905) Massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Saint Petersburg, marking the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The priest Georgy Gapon (1870–1906), hoping to present workers' request for reforms directly to Nicholas II, arranged a peaceful march killings in Derry. John McGowan John McGowan may refer to:
He told the inquiry that as he crawled away he came across the body of a man lying in the street. He said: "Someone said he had been shot. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if he was shot while standing up or whether he had been on the ground. "I saw that there was blood on the back of the upper leg of his trousers Trousers (or pants in Canada, South Africa and the United States, and sometimes called slacks or breeches — often pronounced /bɹɪtʃɪz/ and I thought he had been shot in the legs or lower part of his body." Mr McGowan said he then saw Dr Donal MacDermott approaching. He said: "He reached for the man's wrist. "Fr Daly asked something like "has anybody got a car?". I explained that my car was parked close by and volunteered to go and get it. "Dr MacDermott then grabbed hold of my wrist and shook his head in a gesture which I took to mean that I should not bother because it was too late, the man was dead." Mr McGowan said as he drove home across Craigavon Bridge The Craigavon Bridge is one of two bridges in Derry, Northern Ireland. It crosses the River Foyle further south than the Foyle Bridge. It is the only double-decker road bridge in Europe. The present bridge began construction in the late 1920s and was finished in 1933. he was stopped by a joint army-police patrol. He said: "There was an ambulance and a Saracen in front of me. I saw in each vehicle what appeared to be five or six bodies lying on the floor. "I expect they were checking the bodies for identification. They could have been planting weapons on the bodies. "By that time I knew that people had been shot and I think I knew that the people in the back of the vehicles were dead." The inquiry continues. |
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