I was talking about finding a silencer with a blob of jam on the end, scratched with red paint and a hair attached as a Eureka moment not just a silencer in a box in a gun cupboards but if there was no blob of red blood like jam well that is a different matter.
It is obvious to me that Boutflour didn't sneak into the kitchen to get paint on it by scratching the mantle and then decided to cut himself, stick his blood inside and on the front and then go back to the office and call everyone to the room to show them a moderator with wet blood on and in it.
This was also obvious to the defense which didn't make any such claims at trial. I was also obvious to the defense he would not be in a position to conceal the finding of blood in the rifle muzzle. There was nothing to suggest Boutflour knew anything about the concept of drawback let alone would know that Sheila's fatal wound would have resulted in drawback. The notion he took the moderator apart and put his blood on 8 baffles simply doesn't make any sense.
If he planted evidence and knew the impact he would have rushed it to the police station as opposed to having Ann Eaton hold the items. It was Cock's idea to have such stored at Oak Farm until police came for them.
After Ann Eaton told the Boutflours about how police took paint samples from the mantle they went to WHF and looked at the mantle. If they had planted the paint they would not have bothered to go investigate it.
They didn't press the police to find out anything more about the blood they saw in/on the moderator. They didn't even press the police to take it. They notified police and waited for police to get it which wound up being 2 days later because Jones wasn't on duty the weekend.
In contrast Boutflour took the shotgun shells to the station himself on September 14. Police picked up the scope and bullets but didn't take the shotgun shells so Boutflour got peeved and ended up taking them to police himself. If he planted evidence in the moderator and knew that evidence would prove Sheila was murdered why would they bother insisting on police have the other items that ended up being of little consequence?