I have put together a list of events which in my opinion help to show that Sheila Caffell must have still been alive inside the Farmhouse right until the moment of the 14th event in the sequence, or just prior to this...
(a) - '999' Call from scene requesting ambulances from 6.09am, linked by operator to control room at Chelmsford police station was covering all the events as they unfolded in the region of the kitchen at the point of entry and afterwards, so there was audio surveillance and one assumes police messages being relayed back and forth, events which effectively were being confirmed using both resources
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event One
The sighting of a woman's body through the Laundry room window by PC Collins and PC Delgado
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Two
Immediately after the external farmhouse door was forced open and the disappearence of the woman's body behind the door
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Three
Initial entry into the kitchen the report of two bodies having been found, as per the 7.35am police message that was passed
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Four
The report one dead male, one dead female, as per the 7.37am police message that was passed
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Five
The report that the body of one dead male, and the body of one dead female found on entry to kitchen, as per the 7.38am police message that was passed
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Six
The request that was passed from the scene to the control room, asking for amongst other things that a DCI, the police surgeon, and the coroner's officer be advised of the discovery of two dead bodies in seige, as per the 7.42am police message that was passed
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Seven
The request from the control room at Chelmsford Police Station, to DS Davidson who was at his home address, asking if he could come on duty to the office because police at white house farm were dealing with an incident involving two bodies, one a murder, the other a suicide, as per the time this request was made at 7.45am
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Eight
The fact that at 8.10am, only a further three bodies were found to be present upstairs, five dead in total, including the two bodies downstairs, as per the timed police message
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
(a) - phone link from scene to control room discontinued at 8.15am, so that DCI Harris could use one of the house phones to make a call to ACC Simpson at his home address..
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Nine
The fact that by 8.15am, DCI Harris, CI Gibbons and PI Montgomery, entered the premises after leaving the forward control point in a nearby building at the Completion of the firearms operation under the Commandership of PS Adams, and upon entering the kitchen and finding Sheila's body missing from there. This sparked off a renewed firearms operation under the Commandership of PI Montgomery, from inside the kitchen, involving another search of the premises to try and locate Sheila Caffell
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Ten
The fact that at 8.30am, or thereabouts, Sheila's body was relocated, her body being in what appeared to be a complete state of collapse laid on top of the bed in the main bedroom, mistakenly presumed dead
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Eleven
The fact that at 8.44am police Surgeon, Dr Craig, saw Sheila Caffell's body lying 'on the far side of the bed', with what appeared to be a bullet wound to her neck. There was a rifle laying alongside her body
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
(b) - 1st SOCO compromising of DC Oakey and DC Henderson, commence duties photographing positions of victims bodies, taking video footage, and handling key exhibits, such as the anshuzt rifle, a silencer, bullets, spent bullet cases, the Bible, articles of clothing, towels, and bedding, alongside 'informatives' which were being carried out by senior officers, and a training exercise involving some of the original firearm officers who re-enacted entry to the premises, with the bodies of the three adult victims set in different positions, or in other words, after the scenes in the kitchen downstairs, and the main bedroom upstairs, had been re-staged, in an effort to make it appear as though Sheila had shot and killed the other four victims, and then had used the gun on herself to take her own life!
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Twelve
The fact that at 9.00am when PS Adams visited the main bedroom and saw Sheila Caffell's body, he later recollected that her body had been in a different position to the bedside cabinet, than the position shown in crime scene photographs that were taken by PC Bird. He had no recollection of the gun being with the body at that time
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
Event Thirteen
Shortly after 9.05am, DS Jones and DC Clark both visited the main bedroom, and saw the two bodies of June Bamber and Sheila Caffell' laying side by side on top of the bed! Sheila had a Bible on her chest. There was a rifle resting on the bed in between both bodies. Sheila had one bullet entry wound to her neck
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
(b) - arrival at scene of 2nd SOCO at 9.20am, they are kept waiting outside the farmhouse until senior officers have completed 'informatives', the training exercise, and the restaging of the crime scenes both downstairs in the kitchen, and upstairs in the master bedroom. Whilst at the same time the 1st SOCO were carrying out duties inside the farmhouse for another 40 minutes, or so..
(x) - Sheila Still Alive
(y) - Sheila shot by 2nd bullet which effectively terminated her life!
Event Fourteen
At 9.30am, the Coroner's Officer, PC Wright arrived at the scene, and upon visiting the main bedroom he saw Sheila Caffell's body on the bedroom floor. She had been shot twice to the neck. He states that the rifle had been removed from Sheila's body by that stage!
(c) - a one hour cooling off period between the conclusion of the 1st SOCO team and it's duties which ended at around 10.00am, and the commencement of the 2nd SOCO and it's duties at around 11.00am because with having moved the victims bodies blood had escaped from the wounds of victims and needed time to coagulate, so that when PC Bird started to take his crime scene photographs, the blood didn't appear fresh as though the police had shot the victims. In particular, that they had not Sheila, when they had done!
(c) - Details concerning the nature of the 'informatives' carried out by senior officers withheld under pii
(d) - Details of training exercise involving the re-enactment of the entry into the premises with the bodies of the three adult victims interfered with, withheld under pii
(e) - Details of the 1st SOCO duties performed and actions undertaken during a one hour long period at the scene, between 9.00am - 10.00am, photographing the bodies and handling key exhibits, withheld under pii
(f) - circumstances surrounding attendance of a Dr Harris who attended the scene to verify and confirm that Sheila Caffell was, in fact, dead after receiving the 2nd shot inflicted in a bizarre accident whilst the rifle was being manipulated on her body during the stage managing process - details withheld under pii..
(b) - 2nd SOCO compromising of DI Cook, DS Davidson, DC Hammersley, and PC Bird, take control of the overall crime scene, from 11.00am and PC Bird starts taking crime scene photographs recording the positions of the victims bodies insitu as seen by him at that time! DC Hammersley starts collecting up key exhibits which were handled previously by the 1st SOCO team during the 'informatives', training exercise, and restaging stages.