Stand-Offish wrote:
Sorry to ask you to do my donkey work FA, but seeing as you are on the case so to speak, can you furnish me with the account of how the gun was thrown into the field.
I am not questioning that Duggan threw it or suggesting that it was planted.
It's just that for Duggan to throw it there he had to have opened the door or wound the window down at some stage.
Now I can tell, as a driver, if this has occurred.
What did the taxi driver say?
I don't know if there was any direct evidence positively explaining how the gun came to be where it was other than the Guardian reported the taxi driver as saying:
According to the taxi driver, Mark Duggan left the car and ran:
"The car that had stopped – men got out of it very quickly who were carrying guns in their hands. Then I heard the sound of my rear door opening. I saw that Mark Duggan got out and ran. At the same time, I heard firing from the front. I saw shots strike Mark Duggan. He fell to the ground".
According to the IPCC at the time, the evidence that Duggan got out and ran was corroborated by at least one officer.
Again according to the Guardian:
Witnesses told the IPCC that they saw police throw the gun over the fence.[45] The IPCC initially reported that three officers had also witnessed an officer throw the gun, but later retracted this report.
It will be interesting to read what they say about that when they produce their final report, although due to their misinformation and criticisms of their investigation, its conclusions are doomed before they are ever even made. As well as the other many curious aspects - including the police moving the car from the scene and then bringing it back - it being initially denied that they had authorised this.
