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CCTV footage shown at Massereene murder trial (UTV)
The Massereene murder trial at Antrim Crown Court has been shown CCTV pictures of the moment two soldiers were shot dead at the base as they collected a pizza delivery.
Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, and Mark Quinsey, 23, were killed by the Real IRA outside the military base on 7 March, 2009.
A number of others were injured in the attack including three soldiers, a security guard and pizza delivery men.
High profile Republican Colin Duffy, aged 43 and from Forest Glade in Lurgan, and 46-year-old Brian Shivers, from Sperrin Mews in Magherafelt, deny the murder charges and six further counts of attempted murder.
As the hearing opened, Mrs Azimkar and a visibly upset Mrs Quinsey comforted each other.
The grieving families, wearing remembrance poppies, sat on one side of the accused men while relatives of the defendants sat on the opposite side.
Shivers, who is on bail because he suffers from cystic fibrosis, wore jeans and a dark coat.
Duffy, escorted into the court by prison officers, smiled and gave a thumbs-up to his family. He is being held on remand at Maghaberry prison, Co Antrim, where he is presently involved in a so-called “no wash” protest.
Opening the Crown’s case on Monday, Terence Mooney QC told how the habit of collecting pizzas at the gates of the base had left the troops vulnerable to attack.
“On March 7 2009, a surprise and murderous attack was carried out by terrorists using automatic assault rifles,” he said.
“The targets were unsuspecting and utterly defenceless soldiers and civilians who were gathered at the entrance gates to the base.
“The nature of the attack and the manner in which it was executed bears the unmistakable stamp of a highly organised and ruthless terrorist attack.”
He suggested to the court that relatives of the murdered soldiers might wish to leave prior to the screening of the footage of the shootings. Both grieving mothers chose to leave.
Mr Mooney played footage to the court room which showing five soldiers walk out of the base to meet pizza delivery cars.
Dressed in the desert combat gear, the troops from the 38 Engineer Regiment were only hours away from being deployed to Afghanistan.
Two masked men then appeared, opening fire on both the soldiers and the fast-food delivery workers, before pausing to aim at what the prosecution said was wounded men lying on the ground.
CCTV pictures also showed that 65 rounds were fired in the attack which lasted around one minute.
Mr Mooney said: “Chillingly, the gunmen moved in and shot some of their victims as they lay on the ground.”
He said a soldier injured in the attack recounted how he was pushed to the ground by his colleague Patrick Azimkar, who was subsequently murdered.
Mr Mooney said a pathologist’s report showed the soldiers killed in the shootings suffered multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds.
An audio clip was also played by Mr Mooney of a voice message said to have been accidentally left on a mobile phone.
The phone was found in a green Vauxhall car, believed to have been the getaway vehicle.
“The message is chilling and self-explanatory,” he told the judge, Mr Justice Anthony Hart.
The court then heard a male voice which said: “There were a few dead all right.”
Expert analysis had, said Mr Mooney, linked the images of the getaway car to a vehicle found by police on a quiet country road seven miles from the scene.
The trial is set to be one of Northern Ireland’s biggest in recent years.