Then, as if matters do not get any worse for this group of prosecution witnesses, here is Davy Bootyflour, joining in the prosecution festivities, by declaring the following:-
"This statement, consisting of 1 pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tended into evidence I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not know to be true".
This is a typical example of the dishonesty that I am drawing everyone's attention to. Since, all that was required for David Bootyflour to have done, was to tell the truth by declaring that on the 10th August when he found the silencer it did not have an exhibit reference, although since that time I understand that it has been referred to by many different exhibit references such as SJ/1, SBJ/1, DB/1 and DRB/1. I do not know when these alternative exhibit references came into being, or who altered them on each of these occasions..
You see, if Bootyflour had taken that approach the jury would have been left in no doubt that there was a problem of integrity which needed to be resolved before they could accept that the silencer being relied at the court in those proceedings under an exhibit reference of DRB/1, was the very same unidentified silencer found at the scene by David Bootyflour a long time beforehand...
There was an integrity issue at each and every stage when the exhibit reference became altered. And unless the jury were satisfied that all these different contradictory exhibit references were explained away by innocent reasons, the jury would have no option other than to reject the silencer altogether, which of course would also mean that the key blood group and paint evidence would have also been rejected. So, the police, the experts at the lab' and the relatives all took the easy option, by just referring to the silencer by its last known exhibit reference, which quite frankly is just not good enough. You can't be allowed to fabricate evidence in this manner, just so it avoids a thorough examination into the entire history and the integrity of the silencer now bearing the exhibit reference DRB/1...