Paul Sheehan was not in uniform or in a police car
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November 20, 2014 at 11:10am
Paul Sheehan was not in uniform but in ordinary clothes, and his car was not a police car. What the other man saw was just a crazed man shouting and waving a gun around, then shooting at him and giving chase.
Again, we are all missing the point. Stephen Smith, a man of 30 in a foreign island, was confronted by a man in ordinary clothes, with an unmarked car (how is he supposed to know what GM means – and in any case, it is not a police car), waving a gun around and shouting.
The same man, in ordinary clothes, then shot at him twice. He got into his ordinary looking car and chased him like a lunatic.
Smith obviously fled for his life.
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Perhaps Mr.Sheehan plays GTA
Maltarightnow.com is saying that all 3 shots were fired at Smith.
A bullet close to the roof could imply a shot directed at the driver’s head.
A bullet close to the roof could imply a shot directed at the driver’s head.
Or a piss-poor shot. Either way, this person should be removed from duty immediately and have his firearms permit revoked. Unless there was a clear and immediate threat to life, the firearm should never have left its holster.
This man is a danger to the rest of society.
It’s not only the man who is a danger to society but the Minister who retained him knowing that.
I think he should be charged with attempted murder.
Or are we still discussing ballistics?
The Times are now reporting three shots fired not two.
[Daphne – I can only report what the eyewitnesses saw and heard. They heard two shots. If there was a third, Manuel Mallia’s driver must have fired it while he was in his car and speeding after the other one.]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141119/local/update-5-ministers-driver-fires-three-shots-as-briton-hits-ministerial-car.544812
And where is the Nationalist Party? This calls for a full-blown news conference.
Seems that not only we have a government made up of bullies, but also an Opposition made up of chickens.
The third shot came from the grassy knoll.
How about an episode of Banged Up Abroad, Edward Zammit Lewis? Sure beats Indian films for free promotion of the island’s beauty spots.
A remake of Midnight Express for V18 perhaps?
Banged Up Abroad was exactly what came to mind.
The real irony here is that my taxes are paying for this plain clothes driver to discharge a weapon while visiting his mother, on my time, with a car I am also paying for, using fuel to go to Gzira from my taxes, with plates he cannot use in the circumstances.
He has caused an incident which will cost goodness knows how much to investigate and what not.
He has also caused headlines which do untold harm to our tourist industry and our credibility.
He has also caused fear to increase about trigger-happy drivers in our back yard.
Served and protected.
The latest car sticker on the market:
“WARNING (SHOT): Hit my car and I’ll shoot you”
Oh come on. Everyone should know what GM means by now:
Gowzef’s Mafia.
Given the extreme reaction by Mr Sheehan, I would say a drug test is in order.
His behaviour is indicative of somebody wired out on cocaine.
Get off your fat arse, Manwel.
The victim honestly stops to address the involuntary minor damage to a stranger’s parked car.
He is confronted by a thug with a gun shouting at him and threatening him with it.
He decides to avoid the threat to his life and flees in his car. The thug takes aim and shoots at the back of the fleeing car, hitting it twice.
This is ATTEMPTED MURDER.
Daphne – I understand that your eye witness account is what happened at Triq Wied il-Kappara, where Stephen Smith got into an argument with the Minister’s driver and two shots were heard, quite possible warning shots in the air.
[Daphne – No, they weren’t warning shots. He was seen shooting at the man/car.]
Do you have an eye witness account as to what happened in the tunnel – when Smith abandoned his car and ran? Was it here that three shots hit his car?
From what I can understand shots may have been shot twice, at Triq Wied il-Kappara, and then again in the tunnel?
[Daphne – When the eyewitnesses in Triq Wied Il-Kappara went outside to look, they saw the man we know now to be Sheehan waving a gun in the direction of the one we know now was Smith. Both were standing in the street, out of their cars. Sheehan was shouting and Smith was heard trying to reason with him, telling him to put his gun away. The shouting and gun waving continued. Smith turned, got into his car and drove off. Sheehan fired two shots at the car before getting into GM14 and speeding after him. The eyewitnesses ran back inside and made telephone calls. I don’t know what happened in the tunnel.]
Daphne, was he REALLY visiting his mother at that time? Or was he visiting somebody else in Gzira?
Well, since his mother lives in Hamrun.
MALTA POLICE FARCE
@ Ken il Malti, you are not updated, his mother lives in GZIRA.
We all know that what was done is wrong but don’t you think that that we should leave the investigations to those who really know their job? This is very hard on the family as well.