Two events involving two different police officers, involving two different identical parker hale silencers, carried out 15 days apart, is capable of proving once and for all, that the silencer evidence was/is dodgy, and that different silencers were merged into one...
29th August 1985 - DI "Ron" Cook, dismantled one of the silencers, separating crucial baffle plates at the top end of the silencer, and does not report seeing any blood, or finding a small flek of dried blood between any of the first six baffle plates, top washer and or metal end cap. Cook took photographs of this exercise and by reference to them you can see that on this date there was/is no blood in the silencer at this stage. Cook then rebuilt the silencer and then screwed it directly onto the contaminated barrell of the anshulz rifle. On the following day (30th August) Cook sent the rebuilt silencer he had dismantled and screwed onto the barrell of the rifle, along with the rifle, and the photographs he had taken, to the ballistic expert, Malcolm Fletcher, together with a hand written note addressed to Fletcher which basically said, "this is the Bamber rifle and silencer I was talking to you about"...
Fletcher dismantled the silencer again, on 12th September 1985, at which stage the crucial flek of dried blood ( A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1) first appeared...