Identity of second ballistic expert who conducted unofficial tests

[mike tesko]

Identity of second ballistic expert who conducted unofficial tests, now known - tests which were completed before 20th September 1985

A ballistics expert, by the name of D. Taylor, carried out unofficial tests using the bloodstained Bamber rifle and control ammunition, on 11th September 1985, before the batch of crime scene ammunition, and control bullets, and the bloodstained Bamber rifle and the silencer, were officially test fired by Malcolm Fletcher...

To view details of D. Taylors involvement with the substituted bullet, PV/20 (which had been fragmented when Pathologist, Peter Venezis removed it from Sheila's body during autopsy on 7th August 1985), [please go to the following link:-

(1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/miketeskowski/5302982869/
(2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/miketeskowski/5303016103/
(3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/miketeskowski/5303055011/
(4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/miketeskowski/5211899288/

By some, as it were very strange coincidence, the signature of D. Taylor, appears on eleven General Examination Records pertaining to crime scene bullet cases which were tests and compared between 12th an 19th September 1985 - prior to the batch of crime scene ammunition being officially received by Malcolm Fletcher, who conducted all of the official tests performed with the Bamber rifle, control ammunition, the batch of crime scene ammunition and the silencer (on and after 20th September 1985)...

The signature of D. Taylor is absent from the other 14 General Examination records, pertaining to the other fourteen (14) crime scene bullet cases which were examined and compared on and after 20th September 1985...

It is now possible to distinguish, one group of crime scene bullets, and bullet cases, which were tested and examined, unofficially, between 11th and 19th September 1985, by ballistic expert, D. Taylor, and the official test firing of the other group, which took place between, 20th September 1985 and 2nd October 1985, by ballistic expert, Malcolm Fletcher...

[mike tesko]

List of crime scene bullets, that  D. Taylor, had involvement with between 11th and 19th September 1985

(1) PV/20 - 11th September 1985

List of crime scene bullets cases, that D. Taylor, had involvement with between 11th and 19th September 1985

Following information to be updated soon...

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Copies of all the general Examination Records, pertaining to these eleven (11) bullet cases, which were examined, and compared, against marks made on control ammunition which had been fired via the Bamber rifle (18) unofficially, prior to 20th September 1985, will be published here, in due course ...

To be pondered, is why the role played by D. Taylor, in these unofficial test firings and comparison tests which he performed on some of the crime scene ammunition, before 20th September 1985, has not been disclosed, to Bamber, his legal team, or to the court which tried Bamber for these murders?

Why has the other ballistic expert, Fletcher, made out a case for there only having been one set of test firings and comparison testing, which he says took place, on and after 20th September 1985, when he knew all along, that D. Taylor had carried out earlier tests and comparisons with some of the crime scene ammunition, before 20th September 1985?

Between them, what have D. Taylor, and Malcolm Fletcher, got to hide, that they did not want any of us to find out about?

A Good starting point, would be how crime scene bullet, PV/20, became transformed from originally being a fragmented bullet, on, and until, 11th September 1985, into a whole bullet, by 20th September 1985, to enable Fletcher to positively link or associate it was having been fired via the Bamber rifle (18)...

Another, would be to find out what happened to the two missing control bullets (should have been 29) of which Fletcher only fired 27 during the official test firings between 20th September 1985, and 2nd October 1985...

It now looks almost certain that these two missing control bullets, were used by D. Taylor, during the unofficial test firings of the Bamber rifle (18) between 11th and 19th September 1985 - which the police and the experts between them, have tried to hush up, and sweep under the carpet...

[mike tesko]

Fletcher countersigns General Examination Reports, relating to D. Taylors crime scene ammunition (above) as though he carried out all the examinations on, and after, 20th September 1985

By the time Malcolm Fletcher says he received the batch of crime scene ammunition at the lab' on 20th September 1985, some of it had already been tested, and examined by way of comparison against marks on control ammunition which had unofficially been test fired via the Bamber rifle (18), yet Fletcher behaved as though these earlier events had not taken place...

Fletcher made a statement, saying that he did not know when the Bamber rifle (18) had last been fired prior to his examination of it, on and after 20th September 1985 - but he told a deliberate lie about that, because he had full knowledge of the earlier test firings conducted by D. Taylor, between 11th and 19th September 1985, because his signature (Fletcher's) appears alongside the signature of D. Taylor on all the General Examination records which relate to the batch of crime scene ammunition which D. Taylor had dealt with, between 11th, and 19th September 1985...

[mike tesko]

Fletcher tells COLP investigation, that he must have misplaced the two missing control bullets, from the batch of 29, he received on 20th September 1985 - when he knew all along these two bullets had been fired via the Bamber rifle (18) by D. Taylor during the unofficial test firings which took place between 11th and 19th September 1985...

Fletcher misled the COLP investigators about the missing two control bullets...

It is strongly suspected that one of these two missing control bullets was used in the substitution process involving the original bullet PV/20, which as 7th August 1985 was a fragmented bullet, but which by 20th September 1985, it had become transformed into a whole bullet that enabled the ballistic expert, Fletcher, to link it, or associate it with the Bamber rifle (18)...

If, one of these two missing control bullets was not used in the substitution process of bullet PV/20, then of course, the big question would be, where did the additional bullet which ends up being PV/20 by 20th September 1985, originate from? In other words, were there other control bullets that we know nothing about which the police and their experts used in the substitution process?

[mike tesko]

What role if any, did D. Taylor, have with the 14 bullet cases, bearing the exhibit Reference, MDF/100?

If these fourteen (14) bullet cases are linked to the unofficial test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) and control ammunition between 11th and 19th September 1985, as conducted by D. Taylor, why have they been given an exhibit reference (MDF/100), belonging to Malcolm D. Fletcher? This leads me to conclude that the aforementioned fourteen (14) bullet cases, were associated with the official test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) and control ammunition, which took place on, and after 20th September 1985...

On the other hand...

If the purpose of the D. Taylor examination, and unofficial test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) and control ammunition, which took place between 11th, and 19th September 1985, was to substitute the original crime scene ammunition, with control ammunition, fired via the Bamber rifle (18), to enable a false report to be created that suggested there was only one weapon used in the shootings, it remains possible that once such a substitution took place, that D. Taylor was left with fourteen (14)  original bullet cases, that were handed over, into the custody of Malcolm Fletcher, on and or, after 20th September 1985?

I arrive at this possible conclusion, because originally, the fourteen (14) bullet cases, had the exhibit Reference, MDF/1 - two Zero's were added later, altering MDF/1 into MDF/100, to allow Fletcher to incorporate his cloth pull-through test, as exhibit MDF/1...

However, Fletcher could have substituted fourteen (14) of the original crime scene bullet cases, with control bullet cases, once he performed the official test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) and the control ammunition, so that MDF/100, is actually fourteen (14) of the original crime scene bullet cases, which were fired by use of a different weapon, other than the Bamber rifle (18)...

The Missing 98 exhibits, MDF/2 to MDF/99, consecutively

No evidence exists, or has yet been disclosed, to account for the missing 98 exhibits, bearing consecutively numbered MDF/2 through to MDF/99, which gives rise to the possibility that Fletcher falsified and interfered with the integrity of his cloth pull-through test, which ended up being labelled, MDF/1...

The key to unraveling this part of the conspiracy, rests with the Lab' item number which identifies the cloth-pull-through, (75), which could not have been given to the cloth pull through, until long after all the official test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) had been completed, on, and by, 2nd October 1985. What this means in real terms, is that control bullets had been fired via the Bamber rifle (18) not only during and at the time of the unofficial test firing performed by D. Taylor between 11th and 19th September 1985, but additional bullets had also been fired via the Bamber rifle (18) at the time of Fletcher's official test firing of the Bamber rifle (18) which took place, between, 20th September 1985, and, 2nd October 1985...

Was it any wonder then, that when Fletcher, performed his cloth pull through test, long after 2nd October 1985, that it would not pick up any traces of blood at all from inside the barrel of the Bamber rifle(18). It was this evidence of the clean cloth pull-through (MDF/1) which helped to persuade the court that a silencer must have been fitted to the end of the guns barrel, at the time Sheila was shot and killed inside the bedroom, when all along, the reason the cloth pull-through was so clean, was because many control bullets had been fired during unofficial and official test firings of the Bamber rifle (18), beforehand...

[mike tesko]

Abracadabra - DC Hammersley did not find or recover the bullet cases from the scene, on 7th August 1985

According to the official version of events, DC Hammersley, took possession of the 25 bullet cases from the scene, on and from 7th August 1985, yet - there is one major problem with this evidence, because DC Hammersley was not even on duty that date. It was DC Henderson, who was on duty at whf that morning, and who took possession of crime scene bullet cases, Not DC Hammersley - and so a huge dark cloud hangs over these twenty five (25) exhibits:-

(1)  - DRH/1 (PI Miller instructed DC Hammersley to vacate the original exhibit, to incorporate this one)
(2)  - DRH/2 (PI Miller instructed DC Hammersley to vacate the original exhibit, to incorporate this one)
(3)  - DRH/3 (PI Miller instructed DC Hammersley to vacate the original exhibit, to incorporate this one)
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To view PI "Bob" Millers instruction for DC Hammersley to vacate the original exhibits, DRH/1, DRH/2, DRH/3 and DRH/4, to enable four bullet cases to be introduced into the batch of crime scene bullet cases found in the main bedroom, please go to the following link:-

(1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/miketeskowski/5273010097/


Details to be filled in shortly...

Why did the role played by DC Henderson get attributed to DC Hammerely at the scene, as the exhibits officer, who took possession of the twenty five (25) bullet cases? Why did other scenes of crime officers, DI Ronald Walter Cook, DS Neil Davidson, and PC David Bird, all lie about who was on duty with them at the crime scene on 7th August 1985?

[mike tesko]

Fletcher experiments - he admits that he was unable to tell if any of the 25 crime scene bullets had been fired through a silencer

How odd, that the ballistic expert, Malcolm Fletcher, admits to not being able to tell if any of the 25 crime scene bullets had been fired through a silencer, yet he was the one promoting the idea that Sheila's blood could have got into the Bamber silencer at the time she was shot and killed in the main bedroom, by the process of backspatter?

This was the very same expert, who could only link 15 of the twenty five (25) crime scene bullets as having been fired via use of the Bamber rifle(18), he had to concede that the other 10 crime scene bullets could not be attributed to the Bamber rifle (18) to the exclusion of all other weapons...

If Fletcher was not sure if all 25 bullets had been fired via the same Bamber rifle, how could he be so sure, which gun a silencer may have been fitted to?

He overcame this problem, by confirming that all of the twenty five (25) bullet cases had been loaded, fired and ejected from the magazine of the Bamber rifle, and he was able to conclude, therefore, that all 25 wounds which had been inflicted upon the five (5) victims, had been wounded, and killed, by bullets fired through the Bamber rifle (18) - all of this without having to prove that any of the 25 bullets could be ballistically linked to the corresponding 25 bullet cases...

There are many ways that bullets, and bullet cases, can be matched to one another - but no attempt was ever made to match the 25 bullets with the corresponding 25 bullet cases. For all anyone knows, it might have been totally impossible to match them together, simple because they did not originate from each other...

By another quite remarkable coincidence, none of the twenty five (25) bullet cases, had a solitary follower plate marking upon them - despite the fact that there would have had to be a minimum of three separate loads of the Bamber rifle (18), if that gun, had fired all 25 of the shots, which wounded and killed everyone? How could there not be a solitary bullet case with a follower plate mark upon it, unless some of the original bullet cases had been substituted before, or during Fletcher's official examination of them?