Whilst ever the case (SC/688/85) was being dealt with as four murders and a suicide, between 7th August to 7th September 1985, the version of events relied upon by Essex police, was in accordance with the contents of the police radio message logs (two bodies downstairs, three upstairs, upon entry to the premises, with Sheila later ending up dead upstairs on the bed, with only a solitary wound to the neck). There was no ballistics tests carried out to identify the gun which fired all the shots, not until the nature of the investigation changed (SC/786/85) and all the editing of the witness statements and photographs took place between one file (SC/688/85) and the other (SC/786/85)...
According to the official version of events, there was no ballistics tests carried out with a view to identify the gun which fired the bullets until 20th September 1985, tests which lasted until 2nd October 1985, and resulting in MDF concluding tht the anshulz rifle fired all 25 shots (including the substituted bullet PV/20)...
News papers accounts from the perio when the case was being treated as four murders and a suicide, place Sheila's body on the bed, in some accounts alone, in other accounts alongside the body of June Bamber, with the gun between them on the bed, some accounts with one of the bibles on Sheila's chest, in other accounts by her side...
I will try to locate details of which newspapers reported these events as described, and post them in the coming days...