The Bullet cases which were checked out of sequence, against control bullets?

[mike tesko]

The Bullet cases which were checked out of sequence, against control bullets?

According to the evidence, ballistic expert, Malcolm Fletcher, did not receive the rifle, crime scene bullets, crime scene bullet cases, silencer, and control bullets with which to test fire the rifle, with and without the silencer fitted until 20th September 1985. These tests became known as the official test firings, which allowed the ballistic expert to conclude which bullets if any had been loaded, fired and ejected from the gun that was suspected as being the murder weapon?

Therefore...

There should not have been any comparison checks of marks found on control ammunition, against the actual crime scene ammunition, until on or after 20th September 1985, other wise, there must have been another unofficial test firing of the weapon and control ammunition which has not been officially admitted to?

From a study of the available material currently in my possession I can report that various checks and comparisons were made against crime scene bullets by marks found on control ammunition which was fired via the Bamber rifle prior to the 20th September 1985, but for some reason these earlier tests have not been reported:-

(1) - DRH/4       - 13th September 1985 - found in main bedroom next to DRH/26
(2) - DRH/19     - 18th September 1985 - found on kitchen table
(3) - DRH/20     - 18th September 1985 - found on kitchen floor
(4) - DRH/37     - 18th September 1985 - found in boys bedroom
(5) - DRH/38     - 18th September 1985 - found in boys bedroom
(6) - DRH/39(1) - 13th September 1985 - found in boys bedroom
(7) - DRH/39(2) - 13th September 1985 - found in boys bedroom
(8) - DRH/40     - 13th September 1985 - found in boys bedroom
(9) - DRH/41     - 13th September 1985 - found on kitchen table
(10) DRH/43     - 13tyh September 1985 - found in main bedroom under wardrobe

Now...

According to the official explanation, none of these (10) bullet cases should have been checked until on or after 20th September 1985, because the official test firing of the Bamber gun, silencer, and control ammunition did not commence to be tested until that date, lasting until 2nd October 1985...

So, there must have been an much earlier test firing of the gun and ammunition which the police and the ballistic expert did not want Jeremy Bamber or his legal team to find out about, probably because of the implications it would have on the case against him?

[mike tesko]

The other 15 bullet cases appear to have been checked after the date when the official test firing of the Bamber gun, silencer and control ammunition, took place?

[mike tesko]

When the ballistic expert, Fletcher received the Bamber rifle, silencer, control ammunition and crime scene bullets and bullet cases, he made a witness statement before he carried out the official test firing of the same on and after 20th September 1985, that he did not know when the Bamber rifle had last been fired, prior to the commencement of the official test firings - but he has lied about that, because he did know about the earlier unofficial test firings that took place on or before 13th September 1985, because his signature with the date alongside is present on the Lab' records which show there must have been an earlier test firing of the Bamber rifle with control ammunition, so why did the ballistic expert lie about this?

Something very sinister has been going on here...

Fletcher knew full well when the gun had last been fired and he also knew that control bullets had been fired through the silencer, the question is, at what point or which date did the unofficial test firing of the gun with control bullets actually take place, and could this account for the flake of blood that was found inside the silencer? Was it blasted out from the barrel of the gun into the silencer, and was this the reason why Fletcher's cloth o'pull through test revealed the presence of no blood at' all inside the barrel of the gun, because he performed this test, on or after 20th September 1985, long after the date when the gun had already been unofficially test fired with control ammunition and with the silencer attached?

Well, if the gun was test fired earlier than has been claimed, any control bullets fired through the gun would clean the inner barrel of any loose flake of dried blood...

If a silencer was fitted at this time, there would be a very good chance that a small flake of dried blood might be propelled into the silencer...

[jon]

Was Fletcher interviewed by COLP ?

[jon]

NGB , what do you make of EP destroying ' The Bullet's ' without notifying a court or JB legal team ?

[mike tesko]

Was Fletcher interviewed by COLP ?

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No, and there was another ballistics expert, or assistant, who also assisted Fletcher, who goes by the name, D. TAYLOR, whose signatures also appear on the relevant Lab' examination logs that contain examination results about comparison tests being performed, against control ammunition fired from the Bamber gun, on 13th and 18th September 1985. As far as I know, he was not seen by COLP either...

Seems to me, Essex police and COLP set out to try and conceal the truth about these earlier unofficial test firings of the Bamber gun, silencer and control ammunition...

It worried them to have to admit that such an earlier test firing of the gun, silencer and control ammunition had taken place before the cloth pull through of the guns barrel (MDF/1) was performed, and or before the crucial flake of blood was found inside the silencer (by Fletcher)...

[mike tesko]

Why these 10 bullet cases (DRH/4, DRH/19, DRH/20, DRH/37, DRH/38, DRH/39(1), DRH/39(2), DRH/40, DRH/41, and DRH/43) tested and checked out of sequence?

[mike tesko]

Does the testing and comparing of these 10 bullet cases have anything at all to do with the fact that Fletcher could not link exactly 10 crime scene bullets to the Bamber rifle?

Did another gun fire 10 of the bullets, and if so - did somebody swap over 10 control bullet cases that were test fired via the Bamber gun during unofficial test firings, to allow the ballistic expert to conclude that there had only been one murder weapon, when in fact there could have been at least two different ones?

[mike tesko]

They haven't tampered with the crime scene ammunition for nothing - they did it for a reason...

[jon]

What did Ewan Smith think of Mr Fletcher's evidence gathering ?

[mike tesko]

What did Ewan Smith think of Mr Fletcher's evidence gathering ?

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When I pointed this all out to Ewen in 2003, he was very excited about its discovery, and he proclaimed that he always had suspected Fletcher of being dodgy - Ewen gave me a great deal of praise for discovering that there had been an earlier unreported test firing of the gun, silencer and control ammunition, but before Ewen could get around to doing anything about it, Jeremy got a different solicitor to represent him...