Reason why the "Silicost Impression" taken from under mantelpiece, was taken?
Cast of impression was taken on 1st October 1985, by Scientists, Mr Elliot, who was told by DI Cook (SOC) in the presence of DS Davidson, that the marks under the mantelpiece had been made by a guns barrel coming into contact with it, not a silencer...
These same marks were photographed by PC Bird (SOC) on the underside of the mantelpiece on 12th September 1985...
A paint sample, RC/1 was taken at the scene from the mantelpiece by DI Cook, on 8th August 1985, because it was thought that paint which had been found on a guns barrel (not a silencer) came from the mantelpiece and that the gun in question, which was a gun that the police found downstairs at the scene, had received a hard knock and become damaged?
8th August 1985 - gun with paint on end of barrel found downstairs, caused police to take a paint sample with a view to matching it to the mantelpiece...
12th September 1985 - PC Bird (SOC) takes photographs of "damaged aga" at scene...
1st October 1985 - Scientist, Mr Elliot, told to take casts of marks found on underside of mantelpiece, and that those marks had been made by a guns barrel (not a silencer) which had come into contact with it...
EVIDENCE, was thus, modified to include suggestion that silencer was fitted to guns barrel at the time of a purported struggle between Ralph Bamber and his killer, and alterations to exhibits references, and the times these were taken had also to be altered to accommodate this new approach...