Only 19 of the crime scene bullet cases were fingerprinted using superglue teatment!
These were/are:-
DRH/1 - Main Bedroom
DRH/2 - Main Bedroom
DRH/3 - Main Bedroom
DRH/4 - Main Bedroom
DRH/6 - Main Bedroom
DRH/7 - Main Bedroom
DRH/7 - Main Bedroom
DRH/8 - Main Bedroom
DRH/10 - Main Bedroom
DRH/11 - Main Bedroom
DRH/12 - Main Bedroom
DRH/13 - Outside Main Bedroom door
DRH/14 - On Main Stairs
DRH/16 - Childs room
DRH/17 - Childs room
DRH/18 - Childs room
DRH/19 - Kitchen
DRH/20 - Kitchen
DRH/23- Problematic (see diagrams)..
Originally there were only 11 bullet cases found in the Main bedroom! One bullet case outside Main Bedroom Door, One bullet case on the Main Stair, Three bullet Cases from Childs room and two Bullet Cases from the Kitchen!
Later, One more Bullet Case was added to the Main Bedroom Scenario (DRH/43), Five more added to the Childs Room (DRH/36, DRH/38, DRH/39,DRH/39,DRH/40) and One more Bullet Case to the Kitchen (DRH/41) - Producing a total of 25
So, we have an odd bullet case (DRH/23)!
This was one of the 19 bullet cases which DI 'Ron' Cook (SOCO) took to Sandridge Police facility for fingerprinting by way of 'Cynoacrylate Fumes'(Superglue technique)! But whereabouts in the house was it originally recovered from? What about the Officers report (1612) which deals with a shooting incident in the kitchen? Was Bullet Case DRH/23 linked to a police round which got discharged downstairs in the kitchen?
No?Yes?If so, what we have in favour of Sheila Caffell being shot downstairs in the kitchen, are the following facts:-
(1) - police logs place Sheila's body downstairs in the kitchen from as early as 7,30am, she was one of two bodies both described as being dead there in various other police log messages, timed at 7.35am, 7.37am, 7.38am, 7.42am and by 7.45am..
(2) - Only three bodies were found upstairs by the close of the firearm Operation at 8.10am..
(3) - Sheila was shot twice, once across the throat similar to as if she had been shot whilst standing upright and involved in a struggle with a person who had control of the trigger of the gun which fired that shot! I shall refer to this shot as the 'non fatal' one, meaning that it did not kill her instantaneously. According to Professor Knight she may have still been able to move around after receiving that shot for up to half an hour afterwards! But, after initially receiving the 'non fatal' shot she fell to the ground and became deeply unconscious causing police to assume that she had died downstairs in the kitchen!
(4) - The bullet subject of the 'non fatal' shot had the exhibit reference, PV/20..
(5) - Pathologist Peter Venezis, extracted a piece of badly fragmented bullet from Sheila Caffell during autopsy which performed on the body on 7 August 1985! In his report he describes PV/20 as being a piece of badly fragmented bullet!
(6) - A piece of badly fragmented bullet, is not a whole bullet!
(7) - Prior to performing the autopsy, an Xray was taken of Sheila Caffells body! By reference to this 'Xray evidence' it becomes clear that the bullet had 'fragmented upon impact' inside Sheila Caffells Neck!
(8) - The angle at which this 'non fatal' shot entered the neck is consistent with the victims body being in an upright position, as distinct from the second shot (PV/19) which was created when the gun was held or laid flush with the body (both shots could not have been inflicted in the same action involving recoil)..
(9) - The existence of an 'Officers Report' (reference 1612)which deals with a shooting incident in the kitchen of the farmhouse!
(10) - A fourth body appeared upstairs after 8.10am, when the body total downstairs (2) and upstairs (3), inextricably changed in downstairs (1), and upstairs (4)..
(11) - The kitchen telephone which had originally been 'off the hook' (3.42am, 3.56am), had become 'engaged' at 5.47am, was sensationally 'switched' by the operator to the police control room at 6.08am via the 999 emergency system to enable police to eavesdrop! This occurred at a time when ambulances were summoned to the scene to deal with victims who had potentially been shot, were wounded, or dying - the ambulances arrived at the scene at around 7 O'clock! Once the two bodies had been reported as being dead in the kitchen, police spoke in terms of one of these two deaths being a murder, and the second death as being a suicide! A couple of minutes after reference to a murder and a suicide (by 7.45am), the 999 open line from the scene was closed down at 7.47am! By this stage, only two bodies had been reportedly found, the body of 'One dead Male' and the body of 'One dead Female', a murder, and a suicide! The shooting incident in the kitchen (reference 1612) of Sheila Caffell by police must have been overheard via the telephone prior to the 999 open line being closed down! There was an audio recording of the aforementioned shooting incident, confirming that Sheila's body was clearly downstairs in the kitchen, mistakenly assumed to have been killed, and being referred to as a suicide!
(12) - The deaths of the other four victims of the tragedy, were all murders, none of these could be considered to be suicides!
(13) - When the body count upstairs (3) and downstairs (2) changed after 8.10am,( One body downstairs, four bodies upstairs) the position in the pecking order regarding the potential discovery of Sheilla Caffells body could never be considered as the second body found in the scheme of things, since police would have found June Bambers body by the open main bedroom door as soon as they arrived at the top of the main stairs! Her death could not be described as a suicide, she had been shot seven times, once between the eyes! There was no gun near her body!How police could have missed June Bambers body by the main bedroom door as they climbed the main stairs is something of an enigma!
(14) - In the event that police missed June Bambers body by the main bedroom door, and they entered the main bedroom by an alternative second bedroom door (by the bedside cabinet on the left of the bed), they would first of all have discovered the bodies of the two child victims, Daniel and Nicholas! Therefore, by this alternative route Sheila's body would have been the fourth one to be found, as compared to the third body to be found if police entered the main bedroom with June Bambers body by its door!
(15) - The second body found was described by police as a suicide!
(16) - after 8.10am, Three senior officers left the forward control point in a nearby outbuilding and went into the aforementioned kitchen of the farmhouse (Harris, Gibbons and Montgomery). Harris used the kitchen phone to call ACC Peter Simpson, to update him regarding how the police operation had just gone pear-shaped! It had all gone wrong by this stage because there was a female body missing from the kitchen! By 8.30am, the operation was back on track with Sheilla Caffells body relocated apparently collapsed and dead on the top of the bed! (This is the correct interpretation/explanation for the change in the body count distributed between downstairs and upstairs, where a ratio of 2/3 became 1/4)..
(17) - The bodies of both June Bamber and Sheila Caffell were laid side by side on top of the bed from 8.30am, onward..
(18) - Police surgeon, Dr Craig, pronounced Sheila dead at 8.44am by stating that she had died as a result of what appeared to be a wound upon her neck. He also described the position of her body as being on the far side of the bed, not the floor!
(19) - before leaving the scene at around 9am, PS Adams (Commander of firearm Operation) visited main bedroom and saw the body of Sheila Caffell, there was no gun with her body at time time! Adams would later claim that by reference to the Crime scene video footage shown at a debriefing held on the evening of the first day of the investigation, that he thought Sheila's body had been moved after he saw it and left the scene! He also states that both he and PC Collins thought that prior to their deaths, June and Sheila had both been bible reading!
(20) - Senior Officers performed 'informatives' involving Sheila's death!
(21) - DS Jones and DC Clark both saw the bodies of June and Sheila laid on top of the bed, with the gun on the bed between both bodies! Sheila had a bible on her chest! Jones and Clark left the scene and went to Jeremys cottage where they recited this information to Ann Eaton!
(22) - SOCO (Cook, Hammersley, Bird, and Davidson arrived at scene, 9.20am, but kept out of house until 10 am whilst informatives', ongoing!
(23) - Coroners Officer arrived at scene 9.30am. He states there was no gun with Sheila's body, it had been removed by that stage!
(24) - DC Oakey (SOCO, in company with DC Henderson who took Crime Scene Video during 'informatives' 9am - 10am) took photograph 25 showing the barrel of the rifle resting against the left side of Sheila's neck!
(25) - SOCO (Cook, Hammersley, Bird, and Davidson) take control of scene, PC Bird starts taking the first photographs from 10 am..
(26) - by 20 September 1985, badly fragmented bullet (PV/20) has mysteriously grown into a whole bullet, which enables the prosecutions ballistic expert to conclude that the same gun fired both the shots subject of Sheila Caffells injury and death!