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Barracks getaway car ‘contaminated (Belfast Telegraph)
A getaway car used by the killers of two British soldiers was later contaminated with the DNA of the police’s vehicle recovery driver, a court has heard.
Traces of Robert Greer’s DNA were found on the handbrake of the Vauxhall Cavalier used in the dissident republican gun attack in which English sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, were murdered, Antrim Crown Court was told.
Judge Mr Justice Anthony Hart heard that Mr Greer had also been interviewed under police caution on suspicion of making false police statements after he claimed he had never been inside the car before the date the DNA was found.
Sappers Quinsey and Azimkar were shot dead by the Real IRA as they collected pizzas with comrades outside Massereene Army base in Antrim town in March 2009.
High-profile republican Colin Duffy, 43, from Forest Glade in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and Brian Shivers, 46, from Sperrin Mews in Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, deny two charges of murder and the attempted murder of six other people – three soldiers, two pizza delivery drivers and a security guard.
Mr Greer, a former vehicle recovery operator for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, told the trial how he had been called to the Ranaghan Road, a few miles from the barracks, where the car had been ditched by the gunmen.
His task was to load it on to a trailer and drive it to a secure police forensic inspection garage in Londonderry.
The court heard that four months after the shooting he made a statement to police claiming that at no time had he entered the vehicle while performing this job, instead lifting the car with a winch.
But under cross-examination by Shiver’s QC, Patrick O’Connor, it emerged that he had been interviewed under caution in January 2010 about allegedly making false statements.
Mr Greer explained he subsequently remembered that he had been in the vehicle – on arrival in Londonderry when he received a call to look for the car’s missing exhibit label.