cloth pull through of guns barrel - unreliable in view of tests

[mike tesko]

The prosecution relied strongly on evidence of a cloth pull through which MDF used to check the inner lining of the rifles barrel with, prior to commencing official test firing of the anshulz rifle, silencer, and a box of 29 control bullets. These official test firings took place at the lab' between 25th September 1985 and 2nd October 1985...

[mike tesko]

The prosecution relied strongly on evidence of a cloth pull through (135) which MDF used to check the inner lining of the rifles barrel with, prior to commencing official test firing of the anshulz rifle, silencer, and a box of 29 control bullets. These official test firings took place at the lab' between 25th September 1985 and 2nd October 1985...

Only 27 of the 29 control bullets were accounted for during these official tests, two rounds were missing and unaccounted for...

[mike tesko]

He claimed he did not know when the anshulz rifle had last been fired prior to the commencement of the official test fire which commenced on 25th September 1985...

[mike tesko]

He claimed he did not know when the anshulz rifle had last been fired prior to the commencement of the official test fire which commenced on 25th September 1985...

He had carried out a cloth pull through test of the rifles barrel before any shots had been fired through the rifle, and reported that he found no blood upon it, confirming as it were that there was no blood at all inside the barrel of the rifle?

[mike tesko]

He carried out tests with the rifle using the silencer, and minus the silencer...

[mike tesko]

He carried out tests with the rifle using the silencer, and minus the silencer...

He checked markings he found on control ammunition that had been fired via the rifle with and without a silencer, against markings on the batch of 25 crime scene bullets, and he concluded that he was unable to tell if any of the batch of 25 crime scene bullets had been fired through the silencer...

[mike tesko]

Using marks on control ammunition fired during the official test fire, he was only able to confirm that 15 of the 25 rounds had been fired via the anshulz rifle...

[mike tesko]

Using marks on control ammunition fired during the official test fire, he was only able to confirm that 15 of the 25 rounds had been fired via the anshulz rifle...

He conceded that the other 10 rounds could have been fired by another gun...

[mike tesko]

By reference to various markings on control cases which had been loaded, fired and ejected from the rifle during the official test fire, MDF was able to confirm that all 25 bullet cases which formed the batch of crime scene ammunition had been loaded into the magazine of the rifle, fired and ejected from it at one time or another...

[mike tesko]

By reference to various markings on control cases which had been loaded, fired and ejected from the rifle during the official test fire, MDF was able to confirm that all 25 bullet cases which formed the batch of crime scene ammunition had been loaded into the magazine of the rifle, fired and ejected from it at one time or another...

Markings he relied upon to establish this were (a) magazine, (b) firing pin and extractor claw markings...

[mike tesko]

No tests were carried out to try to match any of the 25 rounds from the batch of crime ammunition to the 25 bullet cases...

[mike tesko]

No follower plate markings were found on any of the 25 bullet cases from the batch of crime scene ammunition...

[mike tesko]

What Essex police and MDF did not want anyone to find out about, was the fact that there had been an earlier unofficial test fire of the anshulz rifle, silencer and control ammunition...

[mike tesko]

What Essex police and MDF did not want anyone to find out about, was the fact that there had been an earlier unofficial test fire of the anshulz rifle, silencer and control ammunition...

which took place on 12th September 1985, or beforehand, and details of this earlier test fire are recorded on several General Examination Records, which are dated variously between 12th to 19th September 1985, details which confirm that comparison tests were carried out between markings on control bullets fired via the rifle, and some of the 25 bullets which formed part of the crime scene batch of ammunition, and bearing the signature of MDF...

The ballistic expert, MDF, knew there had been an earlier test firing of the anshulz rifle, silencer and control ammunition, but he lied through his teeth about not knowing when the gun had been fired prior to the official test fire of it commencing on 25th September 1985...

He fucking lied, the evil scumbag...

Not only did he lie, but Essex police and the DPP allowed him to lie...

[mike tesko]

The missing two control bullets from the official test fire, must have been used in the unofficial test before that took place, beforehand...