Mike,
You appear to have an arch competitor...
The true facts concerning the silencer/sound moderator
I notice that Teskowski is again attempting to make some mileage out of the referencing of the sound moderator. Given this continued nonsense I have gone back over the various statements and trial evidence and can report the following.
DS Davidson was interviewed at length by the City Of London Police on 16 October 1991. In addition to other matters he was asked about the silencer which was submitted in evidence.
He stated that DI Cook collected a sound moderator from DS Jones on the morning of Tuesday 13 August 1985, some 6 days after the murders. He was asked about the sound moderator and admitted that he had never seen it before. He was then shown the sound moderator by his interviewers. He stated that the sound moderator was recorded by him as SBJ/1 on the basis that it had been collected by Stanley Brian Jones. DI Cook asked DS Davidson to raise a log entry in relation to the silencer, this was done over the phone.
Davidson said that Cook spent a long time going backwards and forwards from Sandridge Forensic Laboratory with the sound moderator. He said that for some reason the moderator seemed to be taken care of solely by DI Cook. Davidson commented, "He (DI Cook) had full control over it"
DI Cook for his part states on page 2 of his statement of 24 October 1985, that at 9.15am on Tuesday 13 August 1985, he received a silencer ref DB/1 from DS Jones. Later that day he conveyed DB/1 and other exhibits to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Huntingdon. The silencer DB/1 was returned to him the same day.
At 7pm on Wednesday 14 August 1985, DI Cook along with DI Miller and DS Jones went to White House farm and met with Ann Eaton. They were shown the scratch marks above the Aga cooker on the underside of the mantelpiece and control samples of paint were taken for analysis. This sample was referenced as RWC/1 and was later handed to DS Davidson.
DI Cook was shown a silencer ref DRB/1 by City of London Police in October 1991 and admitted that the initials on the sticker were his. He stated that he had incorrectly given the sound moderator the ref SBJ/1 as he had assumed that DS Jones had recovered it. He states that he resubmitted the sound moderator for testing to the FSS laboratory at Huntingdon again on 30 August 1985.
During the trial DI Cook gave the following evidence in relation to the sound moderator. He confirmed the receipt of a silencer from DS Jones on the morning of 13 August 1985 and stated that it was packed in a cylindrical cardboard container. He commented that it was nowhere near the same condition it was at the time he had received it. It had been well handled and desecrated since that particular time. He confirmed that there was a greyish hair attached to the end which was furthest away from the rifle muzzle. The hair was not attached when it arrived at the FSS lab at Huntingdon.
He was asked about the gun cupboard and he stated that he had looked into it but had not searched it neither had he asked any other officer to do so.
It is crystal clear that what started out as SBJ/1 was later changed to DB/1 and later again DRB/1.
There only ever was ONE SILENCER/SOUND MODERATOR
How strange then, that whilst this one silencer with all these different exhibit references (SBJ/1, DB/1, and DRB/1) was already at the lab` from 30th August 1985, Essex police found themselves in possession of a second silencer, which they fingerprinted on 13th September, and then sent to the lab' to be checked for blood and fibres...
Now...
What was the exhibit reference for the silencer that police had possession of, whilst the other one with three exhibit references was already at the lab?
And when this mysterious second silencer was sent to the lab` on 20th September 1985, what lab` item number was assigned to it?
Who found it, where was it found, and when?
THERE WERE TWO SILENCERS...
