No police records to show sound moderator properly kept in police possession between 13th and 30th August 1985:-
108. While COLP admits, ‘The question of the evidential quality appertaining to this silencer has been reflected on at length in the reports dealing with Allegations 1 and 3. In the main it has revolved around its integrity and whether continuity can be established. This whole area is open to debate and none more so than the custody of the silencer between 13th August 1985 and 30th August 1985,’
COLP then goes on to state, ‘I believe we can establish, to reasonable satisfaction, that the silencer was properly retained by police during this period. I say ‘reasonable satisfaction’ advisably because unless something is retained under indisputably secure conditions with guaranteed records then a small area of uncertainty will always remain,’ (see COLP Allegation 2 paragraphs 2.61, 2.62, 001919, 001920; our italics).