Paint sample, RC/1, end of gun barrel, and scratch on kitchen mantelpiece...

[mike tesko]

End of gun barrel found downstairs - metal cap which screw fitted onto the external thread on the end of the anshuzt rifle barrel...

Paint sample, RC/1 - taken from kitchen aga by Ron Cook on 8th August 1985, and handed to DS Davidson at the scene the same day...

Although the metal cap in question was recovered from the scene, there is no specific information about who found it, when it was found, where it was found, how it was found, and whether or not it was ever submitted to the lab' to be forensically examined...

If not, why not?

[mike tesko]

You see, what I don't quite get, is that the gun barrel was examined, and a silencer or two, or three were examined, so why wasn't the metal cap which is effectively the end of the guns barrel also examined?

If the metal cap was examined, which paint sample was used to make the comparison between any paint found upon the metal end cap, and the paint from the aga surround, and corresponding scratch mark...

[scipio_usmc]

You see, what I don't quite get, is that the gun barrel was examined, and a silencer or two, or three were examined, so why wasn't the metal cap which is effectively the end of the guns barrel also examined?

If the metal cap was examined, which paint sample was used to make the comparison between any paint found upon the metal end cap, and the paint from the aga surround, and corresponding scratch mark...

The sample was taken 8/14/85 not 8/8/85 and Cook was not present when it was taken.  That is why in his COLP statement he said he had no way to know when it was taken beyond looking at the CID6 and he messed up by not looking at th eright place but just assuming everything from form 6.11 was taken the same date as the items on form 6.10 and simply wrote the date from 6.10 on everything when he filled out the Holab forms transferring the sample to the lab.

There was only one moderator taken from the scene and tested.

[lookout]

 Yes------------the wrong one out of five. The damaged moderator had been used to deliberately gouge out the deepest mark on the fire surround. Blood wouldn't have survived on that one.