The Cops shot Sheila Caffell dead, and tried to get away with promoting the idea that she had only been shot once in the neck! Cops told Ann Eaton and everyone who was present at Jeremy's cottage on the first morning of the tragedy, that Sheila was laid on top of the bed, shot once in the neck, a Bible on her chest, and the rifle which had been used to kill her was resting on the bed in-between the bodies of Sheila and June Bamber! When Julie Mugford' went along to Chelmsford Hospital Mortuary to formally identify Sheila's body, upon returning back to Jeremy's cottage she recounted that Sheila only had a single shot to her neck (so, obviously, by that stage, the presence of the second bullet wound to her neck had cleverly been disguised). At the opening of the inquest, the Coroner was told that Sheila had shot and killed the other four victims, before turning the gun upon herself and committing suicide by way of one shot to the neck!
The simple truth of the matter, is that once the suspicious relatives forced Essex Police to start a fresh Investigation with Jeremy Bamber as the chief suspect, it became necessary to deal with the fact that Sheila had in fact been shot twice, and this led to the creation of a Ballistical problem, because she had been shot by bullets which had been fired from two different guns! Hence, why one of the two bullets recovered from her body (PV/20) became transformed, from originally being described as a piece of badly fragmented bullet, which became transformed into a whole bullet, so that both of these bullets could be said to have been fired from the same gun! This is turn enabled the cops to try to conceal for the fact that Sheila was shot downstairs in the kitchen by the second gun and announced as being dead downstairs in the kitchen as per the timed police messages, 7.35am, 7.37am, 7.38am, 7.42am, and 7.45am!
Also linked is the fact that cops photographed the second rifle in a scenes of crime photograph that was taken whilst the second gun was still on display downstairs in the kitchen area..
Hence, why there exists a massive discrepancy concerning the body count downstairs and upstairs at different stages of the morning, for example between 7.35am and 8.10am, two bodies reportedly present downstairs in the kitchen, with the other three victims bodies upstairs in the bedrooms after 8.10am..
The witness statement version of the events being the vehicle by which the body count altered at some point after 8.10am, when Sheila Caffell's body found its way upstairs into her parents bedroom, at a time when she only sported one bullet wound which had been fired across her neck, a shot which had been fired by the rifle captured in at least one of the photographs that was taken downstairs in the kitchen - two versions therefore, exist giving contradictory information concerning the body count both upstairs and downstairs, 2 downstairs / 3 upstairs as per the timed police message log, versus 1 downstairs / 4 upstairs in the witness statement version of the events!