The killers of two British soldiers gloated as they escaped from the murder scene, a court heard today.
The voice message was recovered from a mobile phone found in the alleged getaway car. It was played to Antrim Crown Court today.
Colin Duffy and Brian Shivers deny the murder of Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar, who were shot outside their army base in Antrim.
In the message two men are heard speaking.
One of them said: “There was a few dead all right.” Another said: “Boys, you were cool as f***.”
Prosecution barrister Tessa Kitson read from phone records which showed the mobile was a pay as you go type, the owner had not been registered with the company and the call recorded had been made from the same phone to its own message bank.
She added the call had been made minutes after the shooting. A message reminder text was sent seconds later when the phone was located at Carngranny, a townland in Co Antrim close to where the getaway car was discovered.
Sappers Quinsey (23) and Azimkar (21) were shot dead by the Real IRA as they collected pizzas with comrades outside Massereene Army base in Antrim town in March 2009.
Duffy (44) from Forest Glade in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and Shivers (46) from Sperrin Mews, in Magherafelt, Co Derry, deny two charges of murder and the attempted murder of six others — three soldiers, two pizza delivery drivers and a security guard.
Dr Mark Perlin’s system of testing DNA strongly linked the two men to the getaway car used in the attack, the court heard.
He tested data from a seatbelt buckle, the mobile phone and a single matchstick found in or around the Vauxhall Cavalier, which was abandoned partially burnt-out on a country road just a few miles from the shootings.
He said that a DNA sample found on the buckle was 5.91 trillion times more likely to be Mr Duffy’s than someone else’s, while a sample from inside the phone was 6.01 billion times more likely to belong to Mr Shivers than another person.
Mr Shivers’ own phone was recovered by police and showed a series of calls made the night of the killing.
Mrs Kitson said: “The significance is simply that there was a lot of use and activity of that particular mobile phone which we say involves Mr Shivers during that time.”
The court later saw video footage of what may be Mr Shivers’ silver Mercedes driving through Magherafelt close to the Cavalier before the shooting.
It also saw images of the getaway car picking up the gunmen outside the barracks and photos of it where it was discovered a few miles away.
The case continues tomorrow.