Another thing which I remembered that Jeremy once told me, which has to be taken into account, is that when he returned to the farmhouse on the previous evening, after failing to confront the rabbits he had been somewhat keen to shoot at, was that he told me how after he had unclipped the ammunition from the anshuzt rifle and that he had replaced this with the box of ammunition on the kitchen worktop! Elsewhere Jeremy is supposed to have clipped the round he removed from the breech of the anshuzt rifle and placed it back inside the guns ammunition magazine!
Being the astute person that I am, I have looked at both versions of this account to try and fathom out where the actual truth lies...
On the one hand, police found a box for the Eley .22LR ammunition on the kitchen worktop (exhibit DRH/42) which had (a) 29 live rounds tipped out onto the kitchen worktop alongside, with (b) a solitary .22 bullet in the box itself..
The 29 live rounds on the kitchen worktop had never been loaded into the ammunition of the rifle, but the solitary round that was found in the ammunition box was found to have one set of ammunition magazine markings, and one set of breech markings, and one set of extraction markings upon it..
This to me, seems to confirm what Jeremy has told me previously, for example, that he had removed a round from the breech of the rifle, and put it back in the ammunition box on the kitchen worktop...
On the other hand, the other narrative whereby once Jeremy had removed the solitary round from the breech of the gun and that he had clipped this into the ammunition magazine, has other implications, if true...