In my opinion, each of the four fatal head shots inflicted to 'Neville Bambers' head, were not received until after 'Neville' had sat on the wooden chair that was pressed tightly on the kitchen side of the internal door which led out to the back passage way. Firearm officers were held up and prevented from gaining a quick entry into the kitchen and beyond, because there was something very heavy on the inward opening side of that internal door. It took four burley firearm officers about 5 minutes to force open this internal door, and although entry to the farmhouse had commenced at around 7.30am, it wasn't until 7.35am that a message was passed from inside the kitchen that upon entry two bodies were found. Two minutes afterwards, at 7.37am, another message passed via police radio to senior officers who were sheltering in a nearby farm outbuilding, to the effect that two bodies had been found upon entry to the farmhouse kitchen. A minute or so later [7.38am] `the body of one dead male, and the body of one dead female'. Then at 7.42am, a message passed from senior officers at the scene to the control room at Chelmsford police headquarters for a senior investigating officer, the police surgeon, and the coroners officer to be contacted regarding the discovery of two dead bodies upon entry into the premises.
This leaves it wide open to infer that 'Neville' and 'Sheilas' bodies were present in the kitchen at the time burley firearm officers forced open the blocked and problematic internal door. The consequences of this, was that 'Neville Bamber' must have still been alive at that stage. My reason for beleiving this, is that it would have been impossible for one person to have shot 'Neville' dead by inclusion of the four fatal head wounds, beforehand, and then lift and position his body in a sitting position on the wooden chair backed up to the internal door, without leaving clear signs that his body had been manhandled by the killer. Furthermore, no-one could have shot 'Neville' with either of the four fatal head wounds whilst he was seated in the chair, due to the fact that their was insufficient room between the right hand side of 'Neville Bambers' head and his body and the external wall of the kitchen for a shooter to have been able to get the desired angle of fire, using a rifle of any description, because the gap between body and the external kitchen wall was too small to accommodate such a weapon, enabling two double taps in two different parts of the victims head. Careful study of the double wounds of the four fatal gunshot wounds to 'Nevilles' head provides clear evidence that he must have received these fatal head wounds with his head falling at different angles at the time of the forced entry into the kitchen. It should be possible, for an appropriate expert witness to confirm that shots marked 3 and 4, were not fired at the same time, as shots marked 1 and 2, by a reliance on the angle where each pair of the crucial 4 fatal headwounds entered the victims head, as well as a (distinctive) noticeable gap between shots 3 and 4 [wider] and shots 1 and 2 [narrower]. This in my view is capable of allowing us to work out, that there was 'a very slight delay' between shots 3 and 4 being fired, and the other two shots [1 and 2], as the victims body was 'toppled from the seat of his wooden chair' toward the metal coal hod on the kitchen floor by the corner of the aga surround. Shots 3 and 4 were inflicted as 'one officer entered the kitchen once police had managed to push 'Neville Bambers' body sufficiently out of the way to enable the opening edge of the internal door to open' [right to left - door hinges on left hand side of the door and which 'allowed the first armed officer access into the kitchen at which time he must have fired off shots 3 and 4 into the top right part of 'Neville Bambers' head'. Then almost instantly, 'as the victims body was toppling forward' , or 'when the victims body had come to rest' , the same firearm officer finished 'Neville' off, with 'a double shot tap [shots 1 and 2] to the victims head'..
