Silencer, SBJ/1 was damaged and was shattering control bullets fired through it

[mike tesko]

Silencer, SBJ/1 was damaged and was shattering control bullets fired through it

(1) Prosecution Ballistic Expert, Malcolm Fletcher, made a statement saying that he could not tell if any of the 25 bullets had been fired through the silencer - this was because he knew that any bullets which had been fired through it during test firing with control bullets was shattering them, and there was only one bullet which had those characteristics before it was substituted and replaced, and that was bullet PV/20...

(2) Confirmation that silencer was used was only possible by relying upon blood found inside it that was attributable to Sheila...

However...

If the original bullet / pellet PV/20 had not been substituted, it would have opened up the door for argument to be placed before the court, that the silencer could not have been used on the rifle at the time the fatal shot had been inflicted, because that bullet (PV/19) was not damaged and had remained whole...

This would have enabled the defense to successfully argue that the silencer must have been removed from the barrel of the anshulz rifle if that rifle had been used to inflict the non fatal bullet (PV/20), before the fatal bullet (PV/19) was fired from it...

This would have served to eliminate the argument relied upon by the prosecution that somebody had removed the silencer from the barrel of the rifle after Sheila was shot and killed in the bedroom...

It would provide an explanation for how Sheila's blood could have got into the silencer, before she was shot and killed in the bedroom...

[mike tesko]

There exists a very serious doubt that both bullets, PV/20 and PV/19 were fired from the same gun - otherwise, why swap over the original fragmented piece, for a whole control bullet, to enable the ballistic expert, Fletcher, to link both bullets to the anshulz rifle?

Either:-

(1) both bullets, PV/20 and PV/1, were fired from the use of the same gun, one with the silencer attached, and the other without it attached...

or:-

(1) one bullet / pellet, PV/20 was fired from another gun, withy the damaged silencer (SBJ/1) attached and PV/19 was fired from the anshulz rifle, minus the damaged silencer

However, whichever weapon was used, any bullet / pellet fired through the damaged silencer (SBJ/1) would have shattered it, in the same way that the original PV/20 appears to have been shattered, which serves to prove and establish that the fatal bullet, PV/20 could not have been, and was not fired through the damaged silencer at all...

[smiffy]

Mike...are you sure Fletcher was reporting correctly here.
If Pargetter's rifle (which the police had) was tested then he may have been on about that rifle shattering bullets due to a damaged barrel...it being the gun that had taken a knock and had paint on it!