Individual control bullets were not given identification marks...

[mike tesko]

Individual control bullets were not given identification marks, so that they could be tracked, and any comparison tests performed by use of them, could be verified by other experts who followed in the footsteps of Fletcher:-

Two of the 29 control bullets which formed part of exhibit DRH/22, were unaccounted for as part of the official test firings, of the Bamber gun and silencer, which took place between 20th September 1985 and 2nd October 1985' opening it up for the possibility that these two missing control bullets were used in some sort of substitution process arising out of the unofficial test firings that took place on or before 12th September 1985., where one of the missing control bullets was fired through the Bamber rifle minus the silencer, whilst the other was fired through the silencer attached to the Bamber rifle...

[mike tesko]

Evidence exists to prove that there must have been and was an earlier unofficial and unreported test firing of the gun and a silencer, by reference to details recorded on a number of Huntingdon General Examination Records, which mention that comparisons were made between several crime scene bullets and marks on control ammunition, on dates prior to the 20th September 1985, which could only have involved bullets that were unofficially test fired via the gun and a silencer...

[mike tesko]

In my opinion, all 29 of the control bullets which originally formed part of exhibit DRH/22, should have been given individual exhibit references, as follows:-

Exhibit DRH/22 (29 .22 Eley subsonic hollow point bullets)

1) DRH/22(1)
2) DRH/22(2)
3) DRH/22(3)
4) DRH/22(4)
5) DRH/22(5)
6) DRH/22(6)
7) DRH/22(7)
8) DRH/22(8)
9) DRH/22(9)
10) DRH/22(10)
11) DRH/22(11)
12) DRH/22(12)
13) DRH/22(13)
14) DRH/22(14)
15) DRH/22(15)
16) DRH/22(16)
17) DRH/22(17)
18) DRH/22(18)
19) DRH/22(19)
20) DRH/22(20)
21) DRH/22(21)
22) DRH/22(22)
23) DRH/22(23)
24) DRH/22(24)
25) DRH/22(25)
26) DRH/22(26)
27) DRH/22(27)
28) DRH/22(28)
29) DRH/22(29)

If the 29 control bullets had been given individual identification marks, the police would not have been so easily able to tamper with the crime scene ammunition to make out a false case that this was only a one gun crime...

[mike tesko]

It would then have been possible to identify which control bullets were used in the unofficial and unreported test firings of the gun and a silencer on or before 12th September 1985, and also identify all the control bullets which were test fired during the official test firing of the gun and a silencer after 20th September 1985...

[mike tesko]

I strongly believe that the two missing control bullets were the ones used in the unofficial test firing of the gun and a silencer, which took place on or before 12th September 1985, to allow for the substitution of the original crime scene bullet, PV/20....