MDF/1 Mystery?

[mike tesko]

MDF/1 Mystery?

I have stumbled upon a document which casts doubt on the credibility of a crucial exhibit bearing the identifying mark MDF/1 (cloth pull-through of Bamber rifles barrel). This evidence was a crucial part of the prosecutions case, since they were able to rely upon the suggestion that because the cloth was clean and blood free after it had been pulled through the barrel of the gun,  that it indicated more strongly then normal that the silencer was fitted to the barrel of the gun at the time of the shootings, otherwise blood would have lined the walls of the guns barrel?

Well, according to notes that were written out by Malcolm Fletcher, exhibit MDF/1 related to something entirely different, on 12th September 1985?

[mike tesko]

MDF/1 was a " Lab' examination record" given to the "examination of the silencer" that Malcolm Fletcher (ballistics) and John Hayward (blood expert) examined on 12th September 1985, when Fletcher dismantled the silencer, and Hayward examined the blood found inside it...

Now that is significantly different to him saying elsewhere that the cloth pull-through test that he performed on the barrel of the Bamber rifle, had that same identifying mark?

Now this indicates that there was / is something amiss here...

[mike tesko]

MDF/100 - 14 bullet cases

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These 14 spent bullet cases, are v]=believed either to be 14 of the original crime scene bullet cases, or 14 control bullet cases which were used as part of the unofficial test firing of the gun on 13th September 1985...

[mike tesko]

MDF/1

[mike tesko]

MDF/1- relates to an examination of the silencer, by Fletcher and Hayward, on 12th September 1985, as demonstrated bz reference to attached document, not to a 'cloth pull through test', of the guns barrel? It should also be pointed out, that the accompanying Lab' item number given to the 'cloth pull through' test. (135) could not have come into existence at the lab', until around the beginning of Obtober, 1985, which gives a huge clue to the fact that the 'cloth pull through' test, and results, are very dodgy indeed...

[mike tesko]

If we go by the Lab' item number, alone, (135), it suggests that the 'cloth pull through' test of the guns barrel, was not perdormed until after the official test fire of the control ammunition, which took place, between 20h August 1985 and 2nd October 1985?