There exists no evidence, and none was found by the COLP investigators, to suggest that a silencer which has supposedly been sent to the lab ' at Huntingdon on 30th August 1985, under an exhibit reference of DB/1 (23), had somehow and in somewhat mysterious circumstances, been transferred back to Essex police in good time, to enable Eastwood and Oakey to fingerprint it on 13th September 1985, at 1800hrs, and then sent back to the lab' for an unprecedented third occasion (20th September)?
For such nonsense to be true, we would end up with a silencer handed back to police on two occasions, by the lab' so that police could fingerprint the same silencer, once in 13th August 1985 when Glynis Howard gave the first silencer (SJ/1) back to Cook for that purpose, and an as yet unknown second occasion, if the silencer was handed back on an unprecedented second occasion, by some unknown person, so that hypothetically Eastwood and Oakey could carry out their fingerprint examination!