Police knew about silencer (SBJ/1) before alleged find by relatives of silencer, as confirmed by what DS "Stan" Jones, told COLP in his 1991 interviews:-
If you are a police officer and you are visiting Jeremy Bamber on 9th August 1985, and are speaking to him at that stage, about the silencer for the gun being on the rifle or not, then you obviously do know about a silencer by that stage. This took place one day before the alleged find of the silencer at the scene by the relatives, and three days before relatives allegedly handed over a silencer to the police on the evening of 12th August: four days before same silencer was allegedly sent to the lab' on 13th August 1985: six days before same silencer was allegedly fingerprinted by oblique light test on 15th August 1985: thirteen days before alleged same silencer was fingerprinted by super glue treatment on 23rd August 1985: seventeen days before DI Cook (SOC) dismantled the alleged same silencer on 29th August 1985: eighteen days before same alleged silencer was sent to the lab' on 30th August 1985, inside which the ballistic expert allegedly found the crucial flake of Sheila's blood...
Of course, this is all false because there was not only one silencer, and that silencer was not the one found at the scene by the relatives, this silencer (the one referred to in all these events) was the one found at the scene by DS "Stan" Jones, SBJ/1, a silencer the police had possession of before the opening of the inquest, a silencer which had been sent to the lab' twice, once on 13th and secondly on 30th August 1985, a silencer which had been fingerprinted twice, once on 15th August 1985, and secondly on 23rd August 1985, a silencer which had been dismantled and rebuilt by DI Cook (SOC) on 29th August 1985, and upon being received at the lab' on 30th August 1985, a silencer which had been dismantled yet again by the ballistic expert, Malcolm Fletcher, to enable him to find the oh so crucial flake of blood that contained the blood group activity which made it unique to Sheila; a silencer which was in the words of Fletcher, handed over to the blood expert, John Hayward on 11th September 1985, along with the flake, to allow him to carry out an analysis between 12th and 19th September 1985...
All these events took place long before the second silencer (DRB/1) found by the relatives on 11th September 1985, eventually found its way to the lab' on 20th September 1985, a silencer which had become contaminated with red paint from deliberately having been scratched against the aga surround, with no blood found upon or inside it at all...
Police and relatives changed the date of the find of the second silencer, and falsely attributed the blood evidence to it, which together with the paint from the aga became a compelling argument to help persuade the court that the silencer was fitted to the barrel of the gun at the time of the shootings...
Two silencers, not one...
(1) The PARGETER SILENCER
(2) The BAMBER SILENCER
Amen...