A video recording purportedly showing the mangled bodies of the five men slain by the security forces at Keith Avenue in Tivoli Gardens on Sunday, January 13, has been posted on the popular video-sharing website YouTube.com.

The recording shows the bodies laying on slabs in a funeral home.

All the bodies have head and upper body wounds and at least one man's arm seemed to be broken at the elbow, apparently from the force of the bullets. Only one of the bodies was clad in a shirt. The others were shirtless.

Cries of "Why them kill the boy fah?" and other comments are heard in the background of the recording.

The poorly shot video appears to have been recorded by a cellular phone and is posted under the heading, "Tivoli dead 5".

The gruesome recording was posted on the website on January 18 by a user who goes by the name of 'howill3' and has received 84 viewings. No comments were posted.

It is not clear how the posting of the video will affect an upcoming coroner's inquest which was called for by member of parliament for the area, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, after a visit to the area last Wednesday.

The five men, identified as 23-year-old Fitzroy Daley, 18-year-old Conrad Francis, 22-year-old Oneil Palmer, 20-year-old Ronaldo Mitchell, all of Tivoli Gardens addresses, and 23-year-old Kwesi Cunningham of Eltham Park in St Catherine, were fatally shot after a joint police/military team, who was in search of a member of the feared Stone Crusher gang, stormed sections of the community. The police said the men were killed in a shoot-out.

The following day, police displayed nine high-powered weapons and 481 rounds of ammunition which, they said, were recovered during the operation.

Irate residents of the area have since denied the police version of events and say the men were killed in cold *la*hd.

Post-mortem examinations were conducted on the remains of the five men on Monday under the careful watch of Scottish pathologist, Professor Derrick Pounder, who was summoned to the island by Public Defender Earl Witter.