In reply to Doug:
> So was he a gangster or not ? The press seems pretty certain he was.
Some extracts from the inquest. I apologise for the appalling formatting.
The next entry in your statement refers to a matter on
12 19 March 2007, not a matter in relation to which he was
13 arrested, but instead it was an incident when police
14 were called to A&E department of the North Middlesex
15 Hospital because Mr Duggan went to hospital with
16 a gunshot wound to his right foot?
17 A. That's correct, yes.
18 Q. But he refused to provide them with details of the
19 vehicle which had taken him to hospital or provide
20 assistance to the police as to what had happened.
21 A. That's correct, yes.
Back in
14 June, when we had intelligence that was developing
15 around young men armed with guns going into nightclubs,
16 and the examples were given -- and we have already
17 discussed yesterday -- was intelligence that Mark Duggan
18 had let shots off in a car park, shooting of a DJ.
19 This wasn't just one person. It was an issue -- it
20 was a problem, basically, with guns in clubs, and this
21 is one of the issues that we were looking at to try and
22 tackle.
How it generally works is that we have guys like
25 this who will hide guns at other people's addresses, we
1 call them safe houses, I think I mentioned this
2 yesterday. What is quite common is that the safe houses
3 tend to be girls or young people, and we've had 110
4 young women charged with firearm offences over the last
5 seven years,
On 5 May 2006, police were called to a car repair
6 garage from Tottenham where a Turkish male had been
7 shot."
8 He wasn't killed but he lost a kidney and suffered
9 damage to his bladder. Mr Duggan was arrested on
10 22 May 2006 but the identification procedure did not
11 lead to him being identified by witnesses. There was,
12 it seems, no forensic evidence, and so the matter did
13 not proceed against him, but others who were known
14 associates were convicted in relation to the shooting.
15 A. That's right, yes.
16 Q. On 21 July, he was arrested when a round of live
17 ammunition was found in a car in which he was
18 a passenger; no charges were brought.
19 A. That's right.
20 Q. On 1 March 2008 -- we are now onto CS659 -- a convoy of
21 five cars was stopped by armed police officers in
22 Chiswick. A loaded firearm was found wrapped in
23 a sock in the waistband of a man who was an associate of
24 Mr Duggan's.
25 A. That's right, yes.
Q. Just pausing there for a moment, the gun there was found
14 wrapped in a sock. What significance did it have that
15 it was wrapped in a sock, why do you think it was
16 wrapped in a sock?
17 A. It's to prevent fingerprints and DNA being identified on
18 the firearm.
19 Q. Is that a ruse which is known to you as being used by
20 organised crime networks?
21 A. Yes, it is, yes. Quite frequent.
1 Q. Mr Duggan was himself the driver of one of the other
2 vehicles --
3 A. Yes.
4 Q. -- and no doubt some, if not all of those present, were
5 arrested, but he himself was not prosecuted in
6 connection with that?
Mr Duggan sent out a BBM
21 message, BlackBerry Message, saying:
22 "Watch out 4 a green vw van its trident dey jus
23 jammed me."
24 As you will hear, one of the Trident officers, who
25 was in fact in the Vicarage Road area, was in a VW van,
1 a green one.