The firearms instructor (Roman) also told me that it would be possible to distinguish rounds fired through the .22 semi-automatic rifle, when a silencer was fitted, as opposed to when a silencer was jot fitted, by reference to the rifling marks on the bullet (when no silencer is used) to these rifling marks being scoured with striations from the smooth bore of the silencers baffle plates. He described these microscopic differences to me by saying that these scouring striation marks made on bullets fired through a silenced rifle, would be most prominent at the curved head of the bullet, as it moved out from the environment of the rifles barrel of the rifle, into the smooth bore environment of the silencer.
According to Malcomb Fletcher, the prosecutions ballistic expert, he was unable to tell if any of the 25 crime scene bullets which formed part of the batch of crime scene ammunition, had been fired through a silenced weapon? If any of them had been, he would have been able to tell, but he says not, and from that we can conclude that none of the bullets had been fired through a silencer, otherwise the relevant bullets would have had the markings upon them which overlaid the rifling marks fronm the barrel of the rifle...
If a silencer was used then...
It wasn't fitted to the barrel iof the .22 anshulz rifles barrel, but it could have been fitted to the barrel of the air rifle...
This was why police substituted the original piece of fragmented lead, with something else which could be a .22 bullet, which they claimed was a whole bullet when it most clearly was jot...
