Marks and scratches were located on a part of the kitchen aga behind where the blue and white jacket is hanging...
Yet, the blue and white striped jacket which can clearly be seen to be hanging there, was not even made into an exhibit. But it was arguably a very significant piece of evidence, since as it were, it served to protect the very area where marks and scratches later became photographed (12th September 1985). With this in mind, I would like to invite you all to look at that part of the blue and white striped jacket which is hanging below the level of the mantlepiece shelf, I would like to suggest to you all that the overlapping part of the jacket, is either slightly greater than the distance beneath the mantlepiece, so that anything coming into contact with the underside of the mantlepiece on that part of the aga, would also have come into direct contact with the jacket, thus lifting it up against the underside of the shelf, and preventing the sort of gouge mark shown in the image being made there, without also damaging the material of the jacket in question. Basically, what I am trying to say is that you might not only get one gouging on the underside of the shelf, you would also get some damage to the material of the jacket which was covering that particular part of the aga at the time of the shootings...
No such damage exists on the material of the jacket, and no fibers from the said jacket were found to embedded into the gouge and scratches - this gives a good indication that the story about the silencer being fitted to the guns barrel at the time of a purported struggle between Ralph and his killer is probably bogus...
