L. f!nmrnuTiieation Ho. 293/1988, Horace Hihhart v. Jamaica (views arinpt-.ttfl on 27 July 1992, at the fortv-fifth session) Submitted bvt Horace Hibbert (represented by counsel) Alleged victim: The author party: Jamaica Date of communication: 24 January 1988 nat-.e of decision on admissibility.! 19 October 1989 The Human Bights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Meeting on 27 July 1992, Having concluded its consideration of communication Ho. 293/1988, submitted to the Human Rights Committee by Mr. Horace Hibbert under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Bights, Having tahen into account all written information made available to it by the author of the communication and by the State party, its views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol. Facts as submit-.t-.ftrl by the author 1, The author of the communication is Horace Hibbert, a Jamaican citizen currently awaiting execution at St. Catherine District Prison, Jamaica, He claims to be a victim of violations by Jamaica of article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He is represented by counsel. 2.1 The author was a corporal in the police force of Jamaica and formerly assigned to the Morant Bay Constabulary Station in the parish of Saint James. In the late evening of 11 June 1984, he was assigned to special duty in the district of Prospect with three other officers from the Morant Bay Station, to search for a notorious local criminal who was wanted on a charge of burglary and larceny. He states that it was in performance of his duties that, on the night in question, he shot two individuals, Maureen Robinson and Leroy Sutton, who had been approaching the police vehicle around which the police officers were gathering. Ms. Robinson died instantly, whereas Mr. Sutton was paralysed by a bullet fired from the author's 0.38 calibre service weapon) he died in December 1985. The police investigation established that the other police officers and a third person, who had been interrogated by them, had seen Ms. Robinson and Mr. Sutton, that one of the officers told them to return to their homes on account of the advanced hour and that they had been sitting next to the police car for five minutes. The author, however, claims that he saw them for the first time when their bodies were placed in the trunk of the car. 2.2 The author submits that just before discharging the fatal shots, he had -284-