Ane uner don't know exactly how much time passcu. but there Scottish soldiers — the boys who are based in the area. Bernadette says it was one of them that tied a tourniquet on my arm. tell okay then. Bernadette was still conscious this stage, but we weren't talking much, we were both bleeding badly.
The next thing copter arrived.
Bernadette first of all. I must sav was too picasea unall left me (laugh). Then a second nencopier Calle know how long after the first, TO A ROGE Anyway, they carried me outin a makesmit suretener to the helicopter. It was no time DID PAM 01201P12 near Musgrave Hospital. hev wheeled me into an ambulance. I remember one of them asking group was. next thing was waking up in the hospital. AS McAliskey's makes clear, there were two seperate the British Army involved in the aftermath of the shooting.
First on the scene was a four-man squad English accents; a later Scottish soldiers arrived.
There no about this second batch of soldiers: thev were based locally, on a regular tour of duty. What is not so clear is who the four were who first arrived on the scene. Michael has his Michael suspicions:
story 'The must have been very near.
I heard later that they had of been dropped helicopter evening quarters of a mile away. 'The police me since soldiers were "a distance' little away from the house; that they saw mystery up the lane suspicious. police said, moved towards the house.
'There's
soldiers spot, about 60 or 70 yards away there s don t Can u English soldiers SAS.
out of a the previous about English soldiers arrived. have told that these the the car peared. and were And then, the Neither the soldiers particular the hot set.
they were when they heard the shots.
the police have real idea the soldiers came or what they were - maybe they know themselves Looking at it everyway, see that those soldiers were anything but As une actions o conactions the once they Michael now Scottish esumates mat mustnave while been 20 to 25 minutes after the first batch of soldiers for help. arrived on the scene that second CruD that firmed.
Michael nor
Bernadette were given any the emergency medical treatment during this period. stabulary It is also unclear how the Scottish soldiers were summoned to the scene