DS Jones took possession of a silencer at the scene on the first morning of the police investigation, soon after 11.15am which coincided with his second visit to the farmhouse that particular morning, when he seized a total of 4 exhibits, namely, earmarked, SBJ/4, SBJ/3, SBJ/2, and SBJ/1. Yet, for some reason, only three of these four exhibits found their way into the original property register, those being SBJ/4, SBJ/3, and SBJ/2..
It stands to reason, that because of the existence of these three exhibits, recorded in the original property register, that a fourth exhibit bearing the unique exhibit reference SBJ/1 must also have existed at around the time the other three items of evidential value were seized from the scene by DS Jones on the first morning of the investigation - it is well documented elsewhere, that cops and the lab' dealt with, handled, or examined a silencer bearing the unique exhibit reference 'SBJ/1' and so we can be certain that DS Jones seized that particular silencer at the farmhouse on 7th August 1985, along with the other three exhibits he also had taken possession of on that occasion...
SBJ/1, therefore, was the very first silencer Essex police had possession of, and it had not been found at the scene by any relative..
This first silencer almost certainly belonged to Anthony Pargeters .22 Brno bolt action rifle..
What we know is that Anthony Pargeter has given two conflicting accounts with regards to the whereabouts of his Brno bolt action rifle, and Parker Hale silencer, at the time of this shooting tragedy. Initially, he made a witness statement to Essex police in which he stated that he kept his rifle and silencer at the farmhouse, and that he used to go shooting on the farmland at week-ends. Adding that although white house farm was the place where his weapon, silencer, and ammunition was kept, he had the habit of removing the bolt from the rifle and taking the bolt home with him to Bourne End in Buckinghamshire so that no-one could use or fire his rifle in his absence! Much later, when he was visited by the COLP investigators, Pargeter made another witness statement to them, stating that his rifle and silencer was not present at the farmhouse at the time of the shootings, he stated that he had taken his gun and silencer home with him to Buckinghamshire on the penultimate week-end before the tragedy...
The contents of these two witness statements contradict one another, which leads me to strongly believe that infact, the Pargeter rifle and silencer were present at the scene at the time of the shootings, and that the rifle fired at least one shot, or more, and that his silencer (SBJ/1) was fitted onto the end of his rifle at the time a shot, or a number of shots had been fired. I do not believe that he removed the bolt from his rifle when he left the weapon at the farmhouse, or that he took the bolt home, on the pretense that no-one could fire his weapon in his absence! Anthony Pargeter was not licensed to take the bolt home with him, since it is a component part of a registered firearm, namely, the Brno bolt action rifle, governed by terms mentioned in his firearms certificate!
Neville Bamber was a magistrate and he wouldn't have permitted Anthony Pargeter to remove the bolt from his rifle, and take the bolt away with him...
Essex police had possession and control of the Pargeter silencer from the first morning of the police investigation into these shootings, that silencer was originally exhibit SBJ/1..