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It must be stated that firearms certificates are serious and uncompromising documents; improper removal of Pargeter’s rifle from White House Farm without the necessary documentation was a criminal offence. Pargeter was fully aware of the firearm laws: ‘…any firearm that is licensed to be kept in accordance with conditions attached to a firearm’s certificate shall not be removed from the place nominated on the certificate unless notification is given to the relevant police authorities…’ To get any type of variation on a firearms certificate takes time. To believe – for reasons never explained – that Pargeter chose some weeks or months before the murders to suddenly change his firearms certificate and that the approval came through a matter of days before the killings occurred takes some digesting. If this was the case, Essex police would have been extremely interested in such a bizarre coincidence, but they didn’t ask Nevill Bamber’s nephew any such questions, because they knew Pargeter’s gun was at the Bamber farm when the murders took place. Added to the entire idiocy of Pargeter’s story is the fact that Nevill was a Justice of the Peace and sat on the bench at Witham Magistrates’ Court; Nevill would never have allowed Pargeter to unlawfully remove his .22 Bruno bolt action rifle from White House Farm where it was licensed to be stored.Anthony Pargeter made a number of official witness statements to the Essex police in 1985/86 which were relied upon as part of the prosecution case against Jeremy. He made it clear that he had kept the .22 rifle at White House Farm since 1980, that he always kept it at the farm, and that on the penultimate weekend before the murders he had gone to White House Farm to fit a new telescopic sight to his rifle. Pargeter, in his own signed and cautioned witness statements, then said he had fired some rounds before returning to his Buckinghamshire home and that he had left his .22 rifle at White House Farm.Pargeter retrospectively claimed that as a precaution he had removed the bolt from his gun! (It’s hard not to conclude that Pargeter’s claim he took the bolt home was simply an attempt to distance himself from any indirect responsibility for the murders. Not only was it an impractical thing to do, but both Anthony Pargeter and Nevill Bamber (and the police officers who took the statement) were aware that the bolt is a section 1 component part of a firearm and is governed by the conditions imposed upon a firearms certificate, and therefore it would have been illegal to removed the bolt from the Bamber farmhouse.Ann Eaton’s handwritten notes also confirm that the gun case in which Pargeter always kept his .22 rifle was recovered from the farmhouse downstairs toilet shortly after the murders and handed back to Pargeter, making further nonsense of the claim Pargeter had changed his firearms certificate and removed the rifle itself. The witness statement of David Boutflour (dated October 31 1985) indicates that the weapon belonging to Anthony Pargeter was stored at White House Farm, supporting Jeremy’s statements, and supported by Pargeter’s own statements in 1985 and 1986.Six years later, Pargeter made an official statement to City of London Police which utterly contradicted the evidence he gave to Essex CID
that would fit with the sighting of somthing that looked like a riffle by 3 police officers.
