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Offline mike tesko

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Jeremy was trying to force me to adopt his approach to this matter, but I stubbornly refused to do so, deciding instead to stick to my own principles and methods of investigation...
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It didn't help matters, when at the beginning of 2004, a group of us discovered evidence that the first shot inflicted across Sheila's throat had been inflicted with use of a sound moderator. Jeremy did not take too kindly to us validating that a silencer had been used on the gun which had fired the initial non fatal neck wound...

We stuck to our guns, a silencer had almost certainly been used when that shot had been inflicted - Jeremy disagreed...
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It didn't help matters, when at the beginning of 2004, a group of us discovered evidence that the first shot inflicted across Sheila's throat had been inflicted with use of a sound moderator. Jeremy did not take too kindly to us validating that a silencer had been used on the gun which had fired the initial non fatal neck wound...

We stuck to our guns, a silencer had almost certainly been used when that shot had been inflicted - Jeremy disagreed...

Jeremy was maintaining that the circular mark visible around the first non fatal neck shot, was nothing but bruising which naturally occurred when someone had been shot. We considered this, and came to the conclusion that it was strange how the diameter and the circumference of the mark in question appeared to identically match the characteristics of the dimensions of a silencers end cap - we continued to stick to our guns, a silencer had made that mark, of this we were as certain as we could be...
« Last Edit: June 12, 2015, 10:35:PM by mike tesko »
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At the beginning of 2004, our small group of advisors, started to look more deeply into the ballistic issues of the case. One of the areas we looked into, was whether or not Sheila could have removed the sound moderator from the barrel of the gun after the first shot, and before she had fired the second fatal shot (minus the silencer) under the chin? Our intent had been to try and discover a way for the blood belonging to Sheila exclusively, could have got into the sound moderator prior to the second fatal shot being inflicted? If we could do that (we reasoned amongst ourselves) then it might not particularly matter that it was Sheila's unique blood inside the silencer. This was because in the trial judges summing up, he had told the jury that it was up to them to arrive at a decision as to who's blood was present inside the silencer? It could be a mixture of the parents bloods, and if the jury came to that decision, they need not concern themselves eith the circumstances of how that silencer had ended up inside the gun cupboard before Sheila had then gone on to commit suicide. We interpreted this to include, that if Sheila's blood had got into the silencer at the time of the first shot, that the jury need not concern itself with how the silencer ended up in the cupboard, providing that we could prove there had been no silencer fitted to the gun barrel at the time Sheila had been shot under the chin on the second occasion...

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Jeremy was not happy with this aporoach, since he was adamant that a silencer could not have been used in the shooting of his sister...
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We as a group, had been intending to speak with Ewen Smith about this idea, but Jeremy disposed of his services around this time, because Ewen had been offered the chance to become a CCRC Commissioner...
« Last Edit: June 12, 2015, 11:04:PM by mike tesko »
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It did not help matters because I chose to send in the photograph of Sheila's body on the bed in the main bedroom to Jeremy, under the privilege of RULE 37A, which caused additional stress between Jeremy and myself. I know there are some people who must be thinking that no such photograph of Sheila on the bed exists, but I can assure everyone that such a photograph does exist, and that I posted the original copy I took into Jeremy at HMP Full Sutton, on the day after I got possession of it. This coincided with a telephone conversation I had with Jeremy on the same evening I had gotten the photograph. I told Jeremy over the phone on this occasion that I had taken the photograph in Ewens possession, and that I was going to post it into him the following day. We now know prison discipline confiscated the contents of my letter and the said photograph, and that Jeremy was refused to see it, but in any event he was told that the photograph and my accompanying letter was heing placed in his prison file...
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I am closing down now for the night, with a clear conscience. I have done my duty, and spoken about as much of the truth as I can...
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It did not help matters because I chose to send in the photograph of Sheila's body on the bed in the main bedroom to Jeremy, under the privilege of RULE 37A, which caused additional stress between Jeremy and myself. I know there are some people who must be thinking that no such photograph of Sheila on the bed exists, but I can assure everyone that such a photograph does exist, and that I posted the original copy I took into Jeremy at HMP Full Sutton, on the day after I got possession of it. This coincided with a telephone conversation I had with Jeremy on the same evening I had gotten the photograph. I told Jeremy over the phone on this occasion that I had taken the photograph in Ewens possession, and that I was going to post it into him the following day. We now know prison discipline confiscated the contents of my letter and the said photograph, and that Jeremy was refused to see it, but in any event he was told that the photograph and my accompanying letter was heing placed in his prison file...


I think you also posted a letter from Jeremy about this incident.

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Jeremy was maintaining that the circular mark visible around the first non fatal neck shot, was nothing but bruising which naturally occurred when someone had been shot. We considered this, and came to the conclusion that it was strange how the diameter and the circumference of the mark in question appeared to identically match the characteristics of the dimensions of a silencers end cap - we continued to stick to our guns, a silencer had made that mark, of this we were as certain as we could be...

The first shot wasn't a contact wound, muzzle marks are only left during hard contact wounds.  The only marks around it were caused by the bullet, unburned powder and gases.

 
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I think you also posted a letter from Jeremy about this incident.

No he simply posted this:

"are at least two photographs amongst  the 581 images contained in 'THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM', which was kept locked away inside a safe in ACC Peter Simpsons office. There were 358 photographs taken in connection with the investigation that were deliberately kept from Jeremy, his legal team, and the court which tried the case. In two of the images I have seen of Sheila on the bed, one I saw during a visit to Ewen Smiths office at the beginning of 2004, and the other I have seen more recently shown to me by a retired police officer involved in the investigation. The one I first saw at Ewens office in Birmingham, was taken from a vantage point of the photographer standing about a metre or so, or whatever, at the foot of the bed in the main bedroom. It shows Sheila laid on the bed with her head on a pillow , she is wearing the light blue coloured nightdress, with the hem pulled up towards her waist. You can see that she is not wearing any underwear, and without being too graphic, you can see exposed pubic hair in the region of her crutch. There is no blood on her nightdress, none of the heavily triangular stained blood which appears in the later photographs situated in the region of her right hand side shoulder and armpit. It looks like whoever took this photograph did so out of mischief. It looks like to all intents and purposes, like a soft porn image, as though Sheila is just sleeping on the bed. There is no rifle on her body, no bible on the bed or nearby, just two pillows, a teddy bear, and Sheila. At this time, she must have still been alive because there is no second shot yet beneath her chin, and none of the blood we see on her face and neck which appears later after police moved her body onto the floor at the side of the bed. I first saw this photograph at Ewen Smiths office, contained in what I know know to be 'THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM', loaned to Ewen by Essex police. When Ewen told me about having been to see Dr Craig, I was under an impression that Ewen had taken this photograph of Sheila on the bed along with him to show to Dr Craig, and that this was how he was able to get confirmation from Craig, that when he had viewed Sheila's body at 8.44am, and pronounced her as being dead, that her body was on the bed, and she only had a solitary bullet wound injury to her throat. However, I have since seen another image, a photograph which provides a better view of Sheila's throat at the time she is laid on the bed. She clearly only has one wound, and I now suspect that Ewen may have show that image, or both of them to Dr Craig during his visit to see him. One thing is certain, and that is that Dr Craig told Ewen that Sheila only had one shot to her throat by the time (8.44am) he dealt with her at the scene. But he acknowledged that another shot, the second one beneath the chin came later after Dr Craig left the farmhouse...

Jeremy didn't want Ewen telling me things, and showing me crime scene photographs that he himself did not know, or had seen. He told me to get Ewen to come and see him at Full Sutton, for a talk and to bring the photographs of Sheila on the bed. This was the chief reason why upon first sight of the aforementioned photograph, that I took it and posted it in an envelope to Jeremy along with an accompanying letter under RULE 37A to Jeremy. I had not seen the photograph until the day I took it from the Album at Ewens Birmingham office. I had only been told by Ewen that such a photograph might exist and that in fact if it did, he might have taken it along with him when he had been to visit Dr Craig and his wife at their home. In any event these photographs, or at least one or other of them, were behind Dr Craig confirming to Ewen on that occasion that Sheila's body was laid on the bed when he viewed her, and that by that stage she had only been shot once, with evidence of very little external blood at all if any visible externally of the bullet wound. This is why I know that police shot Sheila, because I have seen this particular photograph of Sheila on the bed, one shot to the neck, no gun on the body, and later photographs of her body now laying on the bedroom floor, two shots to the neck, blood on her face and throat, a rifle on her body, and heavy triangular bloodstains on her nightdress...

Jeremy Banner cannot therefore be responsible for killing his sister, FACTUAL..."

There is no Criminal Procedure Rule 37A so it is unclear what he is referring to.  Clearly if Jeremy had been mailed the photo claimed then he would have had such posted on his website and used to question the veracity of police.  The notion the police hid this then willingly loaned it to his lawyer is pretty absurd.  But so are all the other allegations.
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As a result of discovering the the 1 inch diameter circular mark around the first shot inflicted to Sheila's neck, Smith and Mallinson did a series of range tests involving use of a Anshuzt model 525 semi automatic rifle, .22 ammunition and a 17 baffled parker hale silencer. These range tests consisted of firing bullets into target paper at the range from measured distances of contact, 1", 2", 3", 4", 5" and 6". In total 14 shots were fired at the aforementioned distances, 7 with the parker hale silencer attached to the barrel of the anshuzt rifle, and a further 7 minus the parker hale silencer. The results at all measured distances produced slightly different resilts at each distance specified when the silenced tests were compared against the same unsilenced tests. What Smith and Mallinson then did, was to examine the two bullet wounds upon Sheila's throat using magnifying equipment to see whether or not, there was any evidence around each of the two entry wounds that provided a clue to how far from the surface of the skin the muzzle of the gun had been at the time each shot had been inflicted...

Smith and Mallinson used the ranging tests results aforementioned when performing this task...

Net result, was that they concluded the first shot was hard contact via use of a sound moderator, and that the second shot was inflicted by use of an unsilenced gun at close contact...
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Something else which fell inyo our radar concerned the development of bruising around the lower entry wound on the neck. We reasoned that Sheila must have remained alive for a considerable length of time after the infliction of the first shot,  in order for that bruising from contact with the end of the sound moderator to develop before she was killed...
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I would just like to clear up something regarding the photographs which ended up in Ewen Smiths possession at the beginning of 2004...

I may have inadvertently given an impression that this set of photographs, contained in what is now known to have been entitled, "THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM", consisting of 581  photographs, had been loaned to Ewen Smith directly by Essex police. That was not how Ewen came to be in possession of them. In fact, this album was produced by Essex police to the CCRC under special arrangement, and the CCRC loaned them to Ewen because he had already agreed to become a CCRC Commissioner...
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Much earlier, when COLP had carried out its investigation into the sequence with which all the photographs contained in this particular album had been taken, they discovered that one photograph in particular was not even made part of any official photograohic album, either in the guise of any court album (50), master cooy album (223), or the senior investigating officers album (581). This photograph was retained by ACC Simpson who kept it separately of any version of photographic albums, created or produced by PC Bird. COLP reported that this photograph should never have been withheld from the defence - it is believed to be a close up photograph showing Sheila Caffells face and throat with only one bullet hole present, and a light vertically inclined flow of blood which at some stage had run from that wound. Officially, COLP have never described what that photograph found in ACC Peter Simpsons office safe shows, but in the 2nd version of thier report they do...

It states that the withheld photograph was a still image taken from video footage taken of the crime scene...

In particular that this particular image was taken as part of the 2nd video tape taken between 9 and 10 O'clock at the scene, on the 7th August...



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