MR SNAYER
My wife, while I was in the bedrooms of my children, taking the boys out of the room which was the closest to where I heard the shots, and taking them away from there to a back room where my - where my daughters were, my wife had phoned the Athlone police station and the response from the police station  that she needn't worry they knew all about what was going on.
 And that obviously made me more terrified because of - of how I began to interpret things from that point onwards.  I had two - I made my own deduction it could be one of two things at that point.  It could have been a possible perpetrator of the - or offender of the Law who had been cornered or it could have been a freedom fighter who - who had been surrounded by the police.  I then went back into the back room where my family was with our housekeeper.
 And of course they were - they were shivering there, my children were at that time 13, 11 and 4 years of age and crying incessantly and probably wondering when the next shot was going to hit their bedroom door.  The shots were just going on and on and on.  And I then started crawling around moving towards the back of the house where - where most of the sound was coming from and I managed to open the back window very-very slowly and slightly and I on peeping through I saw feet moving about in my backyard and then with the amount of vision that I had  I could clearly see that my back gate has - was wide open and I know that it's a - that was a practice of me locking it.
 I then became aware of people walking around in the back street in and out of the gate, in my backyard past that window and everybody was armed.  Some had taken position on the property opposite my house, opposite the street in the back, also armed and shooting.  I then closed the window and proceeded to go to the front of the house and at that point I - my thought was to evacuate my house for the safety of my family.