Court Deceived over claim that Sheila would not have been able to shoot herself

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Model, Amy Holland, was of a similar height and build to Sheila Caffell...

It doesn't matter. What matters is the length of Sheila's arms.

Never mind - I'm not going to keep saying that. You can all think what you like about it.

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It was alright for the prosecution to call one of the Lab' assistants, during the trial, to demonstrate how she was unable to reach the trigger of the gun with the silencer fitted, by claiming she was iof a similar height and build, but you say in May's case, it is not acceptable, or you suggest it doesn't make any difference...

Video clip taken during 2003m experiments proves beyond doubt that Amy could reach and activate the trigger, contrary to the evidence relied upon at the time of the trial by the prosecution...

Defense did not take issue with this feature during the trial, because they did not feel that the silencer was fitted to the gun at the time Sheila was shot and killed in the bedroom...

I agree with that judgement - silencer was not fitted to the gun which fire the fatal bullet that killed Sheila in the bedroom. Silencer evidence is dodgy...

What I'm saying is that unless they conducted tests specifically on Sheila, it's not possible to say one way or another if she could have reached that trigger with the silencer on.

Why on earth did the defence claim that the silencer was not on the gun when Sheila was shot? They must have known the results of the blood tests which the prosecution claimed showed that Sheila's blood was in the silencer. Those tests may have been erroneous but the evidence was very strong at the time. I think they should have made more of the issue.

There must have been tests - it was a main part of the prosecution and the defence did not argue that at all, as you say.

Mike has argued that the tactical arms unit officers were 'unhappy' with the scene. Is it not just as likely that their unhappiness stemmed from the readiness to accept suicide? Were they looking and wondering about silencers etc, hence the questions to JB on the 09/08?

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There is a video clip which shows this to have been the case where the trigger could have been reached with the silencer fitted to the guns barrel...

I haven't seen the video and you haven't posted a link to it here. Can you do so or post a still from it or a photograph that shows Amy's finger on the trigger while the sound moderator is on the rifle? Also, can you post Amy's height or any photograph from which her measurements can be deduced?

I think the whole debate about whether Sheila could have shot herself with a gun with silencer attached might have stemmed from the photograph which shows a gun propped against the bedroom window. If you look closely at this gun it appears to have a silencer attached.

The debate started long before the photograph was released. I can't see a line across the barrel where the sound moderator would start, and the overall length of the barrel appears to be too short for a sound moderator to be present. There is a slight difference of appearance halfway along the barrel, but that can't be due to a sound moderator, as photographs of a rifle of the same size with a sound moderator fitted show that the join is not halfway along the barrel, but only about a third of the way along. Why do you think the sound moderator is there?