Independent pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley revealed today that the three slain Lindeners were all shot in the chest with what appeared to be bronze capped rounds.
Daisley, a Trinidadian expert, arrived in Guyana this morning and was asked to observe the post-mortem examinations which were conducted by Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh.
“These were metal. They were capped with bronze looking caps, almost like gold but I think they were bronze. The core of these was of lead. These were not rubber by any chance, they were metal,” Daisley stated at a press conference hosted subsequent to the completion of the autopsies.
When asked by attorney Nigel Hughes if the projectiles were consistent with pellets, Daisley responded in the negative.
“No, these did not look like pellets. There might have been… the one that was lodged in the leg of the individual that looked like it was flattened out like a Trinidad ten cents, it was flat. But the other metal fragments looked like missiles from a hand gun,” he suggested.
“These three men all died of gunshot injuries, two had the fatal injuries to the entry into the arterial left chest posing damage to the heart and the lung and the other chap also had fatal chest injury but the entry was in the posterior or the back then entering the lung and heart and causing haemorrhaging. All three succumbed to haemorrhage and shock,” Daisley said.
He noted that the hearts were perforated in each case and the bullets did not exit.
In conclusion, Daisley said that all three of the men died of gunshot injuries in a similar fashion.
“Two were shot in the arterial left chest. One of those persons were also shot in the left leg and the right leg with the fatal injury being in the arterial chest, penetrating the lung and the heart and causing profuse bleeding or haemorrhage.. The other one who was shot in the lower left back and the upper left back, the upper left back being the one penetrating the heart and the lung was the fatal wound. The third individual had one shot wound to the arterial chest which also penetrated the heart and the lung,” he said in his explanation of the three cases.
Daisley added that the metal fragments in two of the cases looked almost identical and there was a little variation in the third. This, he stated, will be verified by ballistic experts who will determine what calibre of weapon was used.
“Two of them looked pretty similar. They probably had similar weapons or the ballistics expert will tell you they all came from one weapon,” he noted.
