1. It’s called blood spatter, not splatter. There is no reliable evidence that any blood spatter occurred. No blood on the outside of the silencer, just a single small drop inside.
2. Boutflour didn’t need to know anything about SC’s blood group, all he needed was to ensure that the police continued to investigate the case and that was aided by the discovery of a drop of blood in the silencer. The blood group was never scientifically proven to be from SC. Only one person, John Hayward, testified as to what blood group was found in the silencer and he 'lied' by not revealing (a) that he did not conduct the test himself and (b) that the results were inconclusive. The blood in the silencer could have been from SC or RB, or neither of them.
3. No witness has ever testified that RB did not contaminate the silencer with his own blood; they were never asked.
1. It is actually called "back-splatter". Why do you keep saying there was no reliable evidence that blood splatter occurred? Fletcher said it did, and have Bamber supporters ever obtained any expert opinion to the contrary? Blood
was found on the outside of the moderator.
2. John Hayward didn't lie. What possible motives did he have for lying? (a) any testing carried out by his colleagues was under his supervision (b) Hayward stated that it was a match for SC with an outside possibility that it could have been a mixture of June and Nevill Bamber's blood. Dr Lincoln for the difference agreed. At the 2002 appeal, Philip Webster agreed that it was either SC's blood or the parents, but attempted to argue that the probability that it was a mixture of the parents was higher than "remote".
3. They were never asked because it wouldn't have been a sensible question. At both the original trial and the 2002 appeal, both sides agreed that the sound moderator was on the gun.