Let us not forget, that Jeremy Bamber was released on bail (after these interviews) and he was not charged with the murders, until almost three weeks later. Also, that DCI Jones continued to believe Jeremy played no role in the planning and execution of the killings? Let it also be noted, that silencer that supposedly contained all this blood and paint, was already in police possession from as long ago as the evening of 12th August 1985, and it had been to the lab' on 13th August, and that no blood which was attributal to Sheila, was found in or on the silencer at that time, and no evidence that there was a presence of paint from the aga upon the silencer at that stage, either? Let us also not forget, that by the time of these interviews, the silencer had already been dismantled and rebuilt by DI Cook on 29th August, and exposed to the possibility of contamination, and that no blood flake was found hn the silencer by him at that stage? If you dismantle a silencer on 29th August and remove its baffle plates, and you place these onto a work surface where the bloodstained rifle had previously been resting, there is going to be a very good chance that the exposed baffle plates, are going to be vunerable and at risk of picking up at least one small flake of dried blood, which detached itself from the bloodstained rifle - let us also not forget that the barrel of this rifle was photographed resting against and upon Sheila's bloodstained neck, on the morning of 7th August 1985, and that there was a good prospect that at least a small amount of her blood got onto the barrel of the gun, at that stage. Also that the rifle and the silencer should have been kept apart at all costs, until after both had been thoroughly and scientifically checked, so that there was no opportunity for any innocent cross contamination to occur. Worse still, no sooner does DI Cook rebuild the silencer, than he is screwing it directly onto the barrel of the bloodstained rifle, where small flakes of dried blood could have been forced back into the silencer at the screw thread end, which could help to explain the presence of Sheila's DNA found there at a later date...
All of these things occurred prior to these interviews by the police with Jeremy Bamber - and yet he was released on bail and not charged with the murders, or playing any role in it...
Once Jeremy was released on bail, the relatives and the police had already started to get their act
into gear...
Police obtained blood samples from the relatives (19th September 1985) with a view to taking them out of the equation, as far as the blood in the silencer, was concerned, but it back fired because Robert Boutflour, was found to have the very same blood groups, as Sheila (A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1). This became problematic for the case against Jeremy, but the DPP took a decision to arrest Jeremy and charge him with the murders upon his return to Dover, without the need to re-interview him - despite evidence existing that the blood found in the silencer could have originated from either Sheila Caffell or Robert Boutflour (as evidenced by the two witness statements made by the blood expert, John Hayward, dated, 29th September 1985 and 3rd October 1985, where he concedes for this possibility)...
