Please allow me to throw my penneth into this ring of debate - I represented my sister and our family at the coroners court in Nottingham in relation to the death of my nephew. What I learned about the length of time which had elapsed between death in my nephews case and the time he was pronounced as being dead by the paramedic who attended the address where he had supposedly died of a suspected overdose of heroin. Anyway, to cut to the chase during cross examination off the senior paramedic who attended the incident I found out something which I fear was totally lacking at white house farm in relation to each of the bodies of the five victims (Neville, June, Sheila, Daniel andd Nicholas), nevertheless I fear that there may have been purpose behind why the police surgeon had not, did not take the body temperature of each victim, since this can sometimes give a good indication to the time of actual death. Please hear me out before anybody starts jumping on my back trying to bring me down or whatever...
It turns out that at the time the paramedic pronounced my nephew as being deceased, that his body temperature was so low that the paramedic said that in his opinion my nephew must have been dead for 12/14 hours beforehand because his core body temperature was very low. Infact, it turns out that because it was so low in temperature it had plumitted well below room temperature. I can't remember the specifics exactly as I speak but it became clear that my nephew had been dead far longer than the people at the address had said they last knew him to be alive. I learned that after death a body reduces in temperature at such and such a rate, but that after either 10 or 12 hours the body core temperature will reach the ambeint temperature of the environment death had occurred in / at..
As a result of this information we were able to strongly suspect that the people who had reported discovering my nephews body at around 7am, that morning had claimed they had last seen him alive at midnight some 7 hours previously when he went out to an all night grocery store come petrol staion to purchase some 'munchies', or whatever. Obviously because of the temperature of my nephews body being well below the ambeint room temperature of the place he had supposedly died in, it became obvious that these people had been lying through their teeth because my nephew had been dead from as long as around 6 to 7pm the previous evening. Anyway, the coroners job was to determine thee cause of death not whether or not he had been murdered, or caused his own death by drug overdose (but thats another story)...
My point is this, why didn't the police surgeon take the body temperatures of the five victims when pronouncing them as being dead in turn?
Seems to me that there was no interest in determining the time of death in Sheila caffells case because police knew that she had only very recently died, or as the case may well be, she was still barely alive at the time Dr Craig pronounced her as being dead from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the neck, her death was recorded at 8.44am, her body being on the far side of the bed at that stage. Not to be forgotten is the fact that Sheila's body can only have been the female body found in the kitchen along with Neville Bambers body on entry, (as per the police radio message log version of timed events) because June Bambers death could not be described as having been a suicide by anybody's standards. It seems obvious to me that the senior officers did not want the police surgeon taking Sheila Caffells body temperature because it could have proven very damaging toward what cops were trying to do. My take on what they were trying to do, was that they were trying to buy themselves time, to find an accceptible explanation for Sheila's apparent death originally believed to have occurred downstairs in the kitchen, (7.35am, onwards) albeit she had recovered consciousness and made her way upstairs and recollapsed on top of her parents bed. I know that there was supposed to have been a shout out of 'where is SOCO'? But, that's all nonsense because from 9am until 10.00am DC Henderson and DC Oakley (SOCO) were operating alongside and under the direction of senior officers inside the farmhouse, in particular inbetween the kitchen downstairs, and the main bedroom upstairs. I have decided that either DC Oakley or DC Henderson took the photograph of Sheila's body laid on top of the bed that I seized from Ewen Smiths office and sent in to Jeremy Bamber at HMP Full Sutton. It must have been one or other of these two SOCO's because by the time Ron Cook and PC Bird entered the main bedroom scene it was gone 10.00am, and by that stage Sheila's body had already been transferred to the main bedroom floor from on top of the bed an hour or so earlier...
So, any claim that senior officers were trying to show concern about when SOCO would be arriving was part of the deception they were preparing for (SOCO were already there, playing an active role in the cover up and restaging of the kitchen and main bedroom scenes)...
