'I have it on good authority', that 'PC Robert Carr' involved himself
directly 'into the Essex police investigation' from as early as 'the 8th August 1985', when 'he seized a rifle at the crime scene', which had got 'a presence of crushed paint on the end of its barrel'! The rifle in question was 'a [BSA type] .22 pellet gun'. He found 'a scratch mark' on a 'bedside cabinet', in the 'main bedroom', on 'the same side of the bed' to where 'Sheilas body was eventually placed' and 'photographed during a training exercise' referred to as 'Informatives ', and it was 'during this unfolding drama' that 'PC 'Robert Carr' took 'a paint sample' as a precautionary measure! He handed this paint sample to 'DS Davidson', who gave it the exhibit reference' of 'RC/1', who in turn, handed it to the exhibits officer at the crime scene on that same date! The exhibits officer, made an entry in /on the property record which he was completing at the scene, on the same date ['8th August 1985']. In point of fact, 'THE rifle with paint particles ingrained into the rifles barrel, came from two different locations, either inside the farmhouse, or otherwise, the 'two paint samples' were 'similar to the light coloured paint' on 'a bedside cabinet', but 'the other coloured paint mark', which 'was red in colour'!