Reading both Hammersley's and Bird's cross examinations, one of the photos discussed, photo 20, shows the gun cupboard with another cupboard in front of it. Staining on the cupboard is discussed which wasn't examined, we are told, and this picture was taken on 11/9/85. Following timelines it appears that around this date is when the fabrication and making the evidence fit was taking shape.
I suspect the contents of the Bird photos of the gun cupboard taken on the day would be most revealing.
Yes, and it would also be very interesting to have access to a photograph which was taken in the downstairs bathroom by DS Jones on the first morning of the police investigation - Jones had returned to the scene from Jeremy's cottage at around 11.15am, and thereupon he proceeded to seize or to take a total of 4 exhibits, which were originally earmarked the following exhibit references:-
SBJ/4
SBJ/3
SBJ/2
SBJ/1 (silencer)
According to document I have in my possession, the photograph that Stan Jones took in the downstairs toilet which was the location where Anthony Pargeter always kept his .22 Brno bolt action rifle, his silencer, and his .22 ammunition, the photograph in question was earmarked to be 'destroyed', in rather suspicious circumstances! On occasions when I either had occasion to speak or to write to Jeremy about this particular photograph he was of the firm opinion that that photograph had not been destroyed, he suggesting that he had in fact had sight of it, and that it shows that Anthony Pargeters Brno rifle and silencer (attached to barrel of gun) was captured in the said photograph! If this is true, it begs the question why did Anthony Pargeter alter the contents of his first witness statement in which he stated that he owed a Brno .22 bolt action rifle, Parker Hale silencer, and a large quantity of .22 ammunition which he always kept inside the downstairs toilet at whf, but that as a precaution how he always removed the bolt from that gun and took that away with him when he went home at the end of his week-end visits to his home in Bournend, in Buckinghamshire, so that no-one could fire it!
However, by the time of the COLP investigation, 1991, Anthony Pargeter made an additional witness statement in which he suggested that his Brno rifle was not at white House farm at the time of the shooting tragedy involving the Bamber family, he said that he had taken it home with him on the penultimate week-end beforehand!
But..
If Jeremy is correct and the photograph which Stan Jones took in the downstairs toilet on the first morning of the police investigation, then Pargeter has deliberately made a false witness statement concerning the whereabouts of his .22 rifle and silencer at a critical point of the investigations into the shootings! Let us also not forget that Stan Jones took possession of a silencer on that very same morning, a Parker Hale silencer (SBJ/1) that belonged to Anthony Pargeters .22 rifle!