COOK (SOC) puts silencer at risk of being Contaminated on 29th August 1985...

[mike tesko]

COOK (SOC) puts silencer at risk of being Contaminated on 29th August 1985...

DI Cook (SOC) took possession of the bloodstained Bamber rifle, and a silencer which was in the possession of the police by 29th August 1985, and he proceeded to strip the silencer down, removing its baffle plates and exposing them to the possibility of innocent or accidental contamination, by laying the exposed baffle plates out on the very same worktop that the bloodstain Bamber rifle had also be laid during the same tests and examination...

At this time, it was possible that a small flake of dried blood could have detached itself from the bloodstained rifle, and been picked up on the exposed baffle plates as stated...

Once the silencer was rebuilt, any blood that was picked up on the baffle plates, from the bloodstained rifle, would have become trapped inside the silencer, so that when the silencer was submitted top the Lab' on the following day, a small flake of dried blood which was not visibly seen in or on the baffle plates at the time of Cooks experiments the day before, was there when the ballistics expert dismantled the silencer after its submission to the lab' on or after 30th August 1985...

This is one explanation, for how the silencer could have been accidentally or innocently contaminated with blood that did originate or belong to Sheila Caffell, but if so, her blood did not get into the silencer at the time she was shot, but rather at the time of Cooks (SOC) experiments which he performed on the silencer and the bloodstained Bamber rifle on the day before the silencer was sent to the lab' on 30th August 1985...

[mike tesko]

Cook (SOC) did the unthinkable when he dismantled the silencer on 29th August 1985, rebuilt it, and then screwed it directly onto the barrel of the bloodstained Bamber rifle - one day before he submitted the silencer (DB/1) to the lab' to be examined, and inside which was later found the crucial flake of dried blood which produced the blood group activity, A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1, the same blood groups as shared by Sheila Caffell, and Robert Boutflour...

He exposed the silencer to possible contamination, involving the transfer of dried blood from the bloodstained rifle, onto or into the silencer, before he submitted it for testing to the Lab' on the following day (30th August 1985)...

[mike tesko]

When the silencer was checked for DNA, some female dna was found in the screw thread end of the silencer, which could have got there, if the silencer had been screwed directly onto the external thread of the Bloodstained Bamber rifle, because the exposed barrel of the rifle was laid against Sheila's neck and throat in one of the crime scene photographs...

Also note, that when Cook dismantled the silencer on 29th August 1985, he does not report having seen or of finding any blood at all inside or upon any of the baffle plates which he removed and then replaced back into the silencers tubing, before he sent that silencer off to the Lab' the next day?

If there was no blood at all there on 29th August 1985, how could it be there after it was sent to the lab' by the next day?

[mike tesko]

How could the ballistic experted, dismantle the same silencer, on or after 30th August 1985, that Cook (SOC) had already dismantled and rebuilt on 29th August 1985, and yet by the time the ballistic expert dismantles it, he finds the crucial flake of dried blood trapped between baffles one and two, that the blood expert, John Hayward, attributes as having originated, or belonged exclusively, to Sheila Caffell?

Why didn't Cook (SOC) see or find the blood which the ballistic expert found later on, inside the same silencer?

It would have been impossible for Cook not to see any of the blood, which was later identified as having been found inside the silencer (as far down as the 8th baffle plate), if we are talking about, one and the same silencer...

[mike tesko]

Blood could have been forced back into the silencer, at the screw thread end that fits onto the external thread of the guns barrel, at the time Cook screwed the silencer onto the end of the guns barrel at the time he carried out his experiments on 29th August 1985...

Small particles of dried blood which may have been present upon the screw thread on the end of the rifles barrel may have been forced backwards by dynamic tension, into the wrong end of the silencer, and this could account for why the ballistic expert later found the small flake of blood trapped between baffles one and two, and also for why Sheila's dna was identified in 2002, as being present at the screw thread end of the silencer....

[mb1]

What term was used for the dried blood?

There is a profound difference between a dried stain that has dessicated - attached but crumbly - and a piece of debris - a dried flake that has fallen onto or into the host object.

[mike tesko]

What term was used for the dried blood?

There is a profound difference between a dried stain that has dessicated - attached but crumbly - and a piece of debris - a dried flake that has fallen onto or into the host object.

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Flake...

When tested it produced the following results:-

A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1

[mike tesko]

Why did COOK tamper with the silencer, before sending it to the Lab' on 30th August 1985?

[mike tesko]

Not only did Cook tamper with the silencer, but David Boutflour also tampered with the silencer once it had been found, by trying to unscrew the end cap from it so that he could look inside? Furthermore, he told COLP in 1991, that he used a razor blade to scrape off a small flake of dried blood from the end of the silencers end cap, which he retained because he says it fascinated him?

Boutflour told COLP that Essex police knew he had used a razor blade to scrape off blood from the silencer, without saying what if anything had happened to that small flake of blood but he did not name the police officers concerned...

Imagine how important that small piece of dried blood which Boutflour removed from the silencer, could have been in helping to determine whether or not the silencer was used at all in the shootings, and if so, to whom did that blood originate from?

So, relative tampered with silencer, and so did Cook (Essex police Officer), before silencer was submitted to Lab', on 30th August 1985, if we accept that there was only one silencer...

[Kaldin]

Which end is the "knurled" end of the silencer?

[mike tesko]

Which end is the "knurled" end of the silencer?

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Top end, where end cap is situated - the end of the silencer through which a bullet exists...

Bottom end of the silencer, is the part closest to the guns barrel after the silencer is screwed onto it...

[Kaldin]

Which end is the "knurled" end of the silencer?

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Top end, where end cap is situated - the end of the silencer through which a bullet exists...

Bottom end of the silencer, is the part closest to the guns barrel after the silencer is screwed onto it...

Cheers!

I read about it in the appeal document and couldn't quite follow it.

Traces of blood in the form of smears were found in three places on the outside of the moderator: on the flat surface at the muzzle end, in the knurled end and in the ridge at the gun end of the device. The blood on the outside of the moderator was confirmed to be of human origin but there were insufficient quantities to permit grouping analysis.