Please give it a rest now Zoso if you cannot be bothered to establish what happens if a phone is picked up and no number dialed there is no hope!
For your information the line times out and goes off hook it is not engaged! Engaged is when two phones are connected and communication is possible even if nothing being said.
I was not referring to the 999 call in any case but the remark in the log saying the line was engaged when the opertator was asked to check the status.
We both believe NB made the phone call to JB. The totality of the soc evidence shows NB then dropped the handset on the counter and went upstairs where he sustained his two facial gunshot wounds on the landing.
Meanwhile JB disconnected the call his end to make the call to EP. Expert evidence at trial:
There was, however, expert evidence called as to the effect of a telephone call having been made from White House Farm to Goldhanger which was then abandoned by the caller with the receiver being left off the cradle, as claimed by Jeremy. If such a sequence had occurred, the telephone link would have remained open either until the handset at White House Farm was replaced or until the handset at Goldhanger had been replaced and left in position for a period which could vary from 1 to 2 minutes, when an automatic interruption of the link would take place. Until one or other of these events, Jeremy would have been unable to make any call from the Goldhanger telephone.The line at WHF was open but not engaged. I have uploaded the GPO op's WS from Jean Rowe. Nowhere in the WS does she refer to the line engaged. It was not engaged. The line was open thus allowing her to listen in and put the open line through to EP.
There was no phone call from NB to EP or from WHF to 999. The last call made from WHF before the police entered was NB to JB.