CHURCHGOER Kenneth Mackintosh was killed by two shotgun blasts as he
lay wounded and helpless during the Tyneside shootings tragedy, an
inquest heard yesterday.
Fourteen others were injured during the shootings at Monkseaton,
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, on Sunday.
Normally Mr Mackintosh, 41, a manager with British Telecom, drove to
his home in Uplands, Monkseaton, after attending the local Methodist
church service.
However, on this occasion he walked to deliver church leaflets, while
his wife Pam, 40, returned by car.
When the inquest opened at Blyth, Northumberland, yesterday,
post-mortem examination evidence from Home Office pathologist Dr Harvey
McTaggart indicated that Mr Mackintosh was first disabled by two shots
fired from some distance as he walked along Windsor Road, Monkseaton.
He was then fired on at close-range, said the pathologist's report,
read by Deputy North Tyneside Coroner Eric Armstrong.
Mr Mackintosh died from the rupture of his heart and aorta, caused by
shotgun wounds. Either of the shots could have caused his death.
Adjourning the inquest, Mr Armstrong said he had been advised that
Robert James Sartin had appeared before North Shields Magistrates
charged with murdering Mr Mackintosh.
Sartin, a 22-year-old civil servant, of Wentworth Gardens, Whitley
Bay, is due to make his next court appearance on May 30.
A funeral service for Mr Mackintosh will be held today at Monkseaton
Methodist Church, where he was a regular worshipper, followed by
cremation at Whitley Bay.
Three Monkseaton people wounded in the shootings were said to be
improving in hospital yesterday.
Mr Brian Thoms, 38, of Hillfield, is in Freeman Hospital, Newcastle,
with chest, arm, leg, and back injuries.
Mrs Jean Miller, 69, of Brantwood Avenue, who has abdomen and groin
injuries, and Mr Peter Burgon, 41, of Westfield Avenue, who suffered arm
and chest wounds, are both in North Tyneside General Hospital.
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