Why would the COLP investigators mention the existence of a second key silencer which was in the possession of Essex police, if all along there was only ever one silencer with all these different exhibit references, of SBJ/1, SJ/1, DB/1 and DRB/1...
I don't believe COLP investigators did mention 2 suppressors being tested in 1985. Why would COLP investigators go out of their way to publicly assert there was only 1 and yet admit such privately?
It would not make any sense at all to lie and conceal/destory documents detailing a second suppressor and yet to verbally admit they did so.
Moreover, apart from it making no sense at all to plant paint on 1 suppressor and blood on another, Glynis Howard insists that the suppressor she inspected had both blood and paint. So that right there tears a big hole in the claim that there was 1 with blood another with paint.
There is no evidence of a SJ-1 exhibit even existing, that prefix appears to be completely made up. No cops who handled the case use such prefix nor are there any potential civilians to use such prefix. Since there is no evidence that documents discussing such an exhibit will ever be able to be provided (since it was obviously entirely made up) the claim is being made that the documents related to SJ-1 were destroyed/kept hidden and it was renamed DB-1. So the trick is to use the documents discussing DB/1 and make the totally unsupported claim this was a different suppressor than the documents marked SBJ/1 and DRB/1.
But documents and testimony detail how and why SBJ-1 was renamed DB-1 and various people were well aware of this including Glynis Howard who said the change happened before she went on a leave of absense.
It is well documented how SBJ/1 progressed to DB/1 and then DRB/1 and why this progression occurred.
There is no expnation why the prefix SJ would have been used and who it relates to. It's not the prefix used by either of the cops named Jones.
It is bad enough to not be able to explain who the initial SJ relate to. Still it would have been smarter to just use the lie that there was a second suppressor marked SJ/1 for no explainable reason and the records related to which were destroyed or being hidden by COLP than to weave the web of deception even more by claiming SJ/1 was changed to DB/1. That was downright stupid and shows just how bogus the claim is because COLP went out of its way to fully address how SBJ/1 progressed to DB/1 and then finally DRB/1 so the claim there was a different exhibit that progressed to DB/1 is nonsensical.