On the afternoon of 9th August 1985, DCI Jones, and DS Jones, questioned Jeremy at his cottage about the silencer, asking him whether or not the silencer was fitted to the barrel of the gun when he used the anshuzt rifle on the evening prior to the shootings - he told then, "no"...
This proves the silencer was in the minds of the police prior to them handing the keys to whf over to the Eaton's later that date. Jeremy told them that he did not know who had removed it from the gun, but he guessed it had been removed by his father and put away in the gun cupboard...