Z has identified true identity of gun which had red paint on it from aga in the kitchen . . .
Are you allowed to divulge what gun it was?
Also, did you find out anything more as to (a) exactly where Sheila was when first seen apparently lifeless, and (b) whether Sheila spoke at all to the police called to WHF? If not, please ask your informant.
Yes, I am allowed to divulge the identity of the guns barrel, and my informant has confirmed to me that Sheila's body was first spotted through the kitchen window by one of the officers who saw her body through a doorway adjacent to the window, in a room known as the pantry. Sheila's body was isolated from her fathers, in that they were not in the same room as each other...
Back to divulging the identity of the rifles barrel which was found to have paint on it, there is something which needs to be explained regarding why it has been difficult for someone who is/was not in the know regarding its identity and any significance which the police attached to it from a very early stage. For example, the following guns were known to have been found in the following locations at the scene:-
(1) 12 bore shotgun - downstairs in gun cupboard
(2) Anthony Pargeters .22 bolt action rifle - downstairs in toilet
(3) Anshulz rifle - upstairs resting against bedroom window. but ended up on body as part of stage managing by police
(4) .22 air rifle - upstairs in bedroom, but moved to bottom of small stairs in corner of kitchen as part of stage managing by police...
Based on this information, it was an almost impossible task for any outsider to try and reconstruct to which rifles barrel was DC Hammersley referring to when he spoke to COLP in 1991, and told them why a paint sample had been taken from the aga surround in the kitchen at whf on 8th August 1985. Since, according to my informant, the relevant piece of guns barrel upon which the red paint from the aga was found, belonged to a rifle found upstairs, but the component part (Metal end cap which screws onto the barrel of the rifle) was actually found downstairs...
This crucial piece of the guns barrel (metal cap contaminated with paint from the aga surround) was found on the kitchen floor. Police originally came to the conclusion that a small mark which was present on the kitchen surround had been made when the rifles barrel (metal end cap) had been fitted to the end of the anshulz rifles barrel, and it had come into contact with the surround at some time or other, and not necessarily during any struggle between Ralph and his killer. Nevertheless, it is now clear that the guns metal end cap which screws onto the end of the barrel of the anshulz rifle was the cause of the original mark found on the aga surround, not any silencer, and that a paint sample (RC/1) was taken and used to confirm this to have been the case...
Informant told me that other marks on aga were made later, at which stage silencers got contaminated with paint from the same place...
Hope this helps...
