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Police arrived at the scene shortly after the soldiers. The laneway runs past the side of the dwelling-house at No 11. (Outbuildings of No�11 are correctly numbered 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on Map�20B; the building numbered 8 is in fact the dwelling-house and the building numbered 9 is an outhouse.) There is a gap between outbuildings numbered 3 and 4 of No�11. At the point marked M on Map�20B were found a pair of dirty white gloves. Behind No 11 was found a blue hat amongst gorse bushes.
Behind the rear seat of the car was found an elaborate metal device intended for use as a firing platform for a gunman firing a rifle from the rear of the car with the tailgate propped open and the hatch raised. When he had fired, the hatch and tailgate could be closed very quickly and the steel plates forming part of the firing platform would then protect the occupants of the car from return fire. Cartridge discharge residues indicated that a weapon had been fired from the rear of the car.
Both CB radios operated over a distance of ten miles and both mobile phones were capable of operating in the area close to the border. When a CB radio is switched on initially, it switches on to channel 9, not channel 26. Neither mobile phone was capable of making outgoing calls. They were only capable of receiving incoming calls. The CB�radios were found to be capable of transmitting and receiving on their forty channels.
When the trailer was examined it was found that the wooden panel (under which the hidden compartment was found) was attached to the frame by only one bolt and nut. Two balaclavas, one black and one khaki, were found in the compartment.
Inside the barn belonging to No 10 Martin Mines, James McArdle and the appellant McGinn were found by soldiers. They were close to the Mazda car and the trailer and the Ford Sierra was just outside the barn. One of them at least seemed extremely surprised when he was challenged by one of the soldiers. We infer that the men in the barn did not see or hear the soldiers as they arrived. They resisted arrest.
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