A dramatic recording of PC Kelly’s agonising cries

A dramatic recording of PC Kelly’s agonising cries for
help over his walky-talky radio was played to the jury.

The chilling sound of the policeman screaming in pain and
terror seconds after being shot cut across the otherwise silent
courtroom.

PC Kelly, using the codename Echo Tango 24, could be heard
urgently shouting: ‘Ten nine, ten nine, ten nine,’ the signal for
‘policeman in trouble.

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He then yelled: ‘We’ve been shot, we’ve been shot, we’ve
been shot.

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The cries over the radio were heard by police officers in
the control room at Selby, Yorkshire.

The jury heard a series of radio messages, lasting 20 minutes,
which covered the two shooting incidents that morning and the
attempts to catch the gunmen in between.

A policewoman arriving at the scene of the first shooting
can be heard crying: ‘Get me an ambulance quickly.

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She added: ‘I’ve got one in the carriageway and one in the
vehicle.

One of them is badly shot.

I don’t know about the other
one at the moment.

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The jury also heard a policeman telling the control room
that he was driving at 100 mph in a bid to catch the escaping
gunmen.

The tape finished with the second shooting incident when
an officer in the control room anxiously tried to get through
to a policeman and a policewoman after hearing that they were
being shot at.

He is eventually informed that both these officers have
escaped uninjured.

The trial continues.

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NOTE TO NEWS DESK.

There has still not been any mention of the IRA in front of
the jury.

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