OK, blood found inside a silencer (DB/1) sent to the Lab' on 30th August 1985, belonged to the relatives, and by the time the blood came to be analyzed, Robert Boutflour had already managed to persuade ACC Peter Simpson, to start a fresh investigation, with a view to prosecuting Jeremy for the killings - in order to pursue such an objective, they had to find a way to make out a case for the blood having been found inside the Bamber silencer, which had not been seized or found by that stage...
Later, when the Bamber silencer was found in the gun cupboard, it was seen as an ideal opportunity to suggest that the blood had actually been found inside that silencer (DRB/1) and that the killer had used it on the gun at the time Sheila was shot and killed in the bedroom, and therefore the killer must have removed the Bamber silencer from the gun and taken it downstairs to hide it in the gun cupboard...
Police and relatives, simply moved the timing of when the Bamber silencer was found, from 11th September 1985, to 10th August 1985, and all the documentation at the lab', was altered to accommodate this approach...
This was how the Bamber silencer (DRB/1) which was found on 11th September 1985, was treated as having been the same silencer which was sent to the Lab' on 13th August 1985 (SBJ/1), and later when a silencer was resubmitted to the Lab' on 30th August 1985 (DB/1)...
They made out a false case for the Bamber silencer having been found sooner than it was, and for it to have been submitted to the Lab' sooner than it actually was...
Well where did the silencer DB/1 tested on 30th August come from? If the police had found it at the scene they would have said so at the time surely because at that point Robert Boutflour hadn't been to see Peter Simpson and they had no reason not to say so. If the Boutflours handed it in for some reason, the police would want to know where they got it.
If the blood found in the silencer DB/1 was June's, then how did it get there? If it wasn't hers then whose was it?
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Silencer DB/1 could not have been found at the scene, its as simple as that, because it was well known that there should have only been two different silencers at the farmhouse, one Parker hale silencer which belonged to Anthony Pargeter (SBJ/1), and the other which was the Bamber silencer (DRB/1), the former silencer normally kept ion the downstairs toilet at the farm, and the latter kept in the gun cupboard...
Silencer DB/1 must have been handed into the police by the Boutflours, at some stage before 30th August 1985...
Well if it was handed in by the Boutflours and it was found to have blood in it on 30th August, don't you think the police would have asked them how it came to have blood in it?
Whose blood was it? I thought it was established that June's DNA had been found in the silencer. How would her DNA get inside a silencer owned by the Boutflours?
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David Boutflour claims that when he found the silencer (DRB/1) in the gun cupboard, that it had a blob of blood stuck to the outside of it, on the silencers end cap, which he scraped off by use of a razor blade, and which he retained because it fascinated him...
There is no photographic evidence to prove that the flake of blood was ever found inside the silencer (DB/1), we only have the say so, of the ballistics expert, who claims it was found to be trapped between baffle plates one and two...
What is very interesting, is that Boutflour actually found the Bamber silencer in the gun cupboard on 11th September 1985, and that the blood was analyzed at the lab' from 12th September 1985, onwards...
There is a possibility that the flake which Boutflour scraped off the end of the Bamber silencers end cap, by use of a razor blade was handed over to the police, which in turn was submitted to the Lab' in time for it to commence being analyzed from 12th September 1985, onward. If true, blood was not found inside the silencer, which ever silencer was being referred to, it was only allegedly found on the outside of the Bamber silencer, it could have got there by a process of innocent or accidental contamination...
Interestingly enough, Boutflour made no mention of scraping off this flake of blood from the end of the silencer he found in the gun cupboard, until he was spoken to by COLP in 1991...
He did not tell COLP what happened to that flake of blood, other than to say that Essex police were fully aware of what he had done...
This is all very well, but he should have told the court during Jeremy's trial what he had done with this piece of dried blood that he scraped from the Bamber silencers end cap - he effectively compromised the silencer (DRB/1) and any evidence which might have been found upon it...
