this is what I keep saying - The photos are vital as it is those that indicate a staged scene. If the gun had fallen to the side for example and her hand was in a different position it would not have looked like a "staged suicide" it might have looked like a suicide . If you see what I mean . So if the police did pick up the gun and check it before the photos and did not put it back in the same position then we are not really looking at the true scene - or perhaps they moved the body to protect her dignity? And to be honest when you take the statement quoted above into account it does not look like we can be 100% sure?
Yes, the photographic evidence relied upon at trial, to 'bolster up the case against Jeremy Bamber' was very misleading, and unfair. The jury obviously would have accepted the position of Sheila's body as seen in one or more of those
'8 consecutively taken photographs showing Sheila' body on the bedroom floor in the possession of the rifle' as being 'exactly' as it had been found upon first entry by police, with the exception of the fact that PC Bird (SOCO) took a photograph of the rifle leaning against the main bedroom window, a photograph numbered 23, showing the said rifle leaning against the aforementioned window was subject of cross examination in chief, and by defence counsell. PC Bird testified that he he took photograph 23. When asked if he had seen or knew who had put that rifle there at the window, he said he had not seen who had put that rifle there. The matter was further enquired into when Detective Inspector Cook testified. He was questioned about the different positions of Sheila's right hand, and her arm, against her body and upon the gun, as subject to photographs bearing the sequential numbers, 29 / 30? Cook told the court that he had shifted the position of Sheila's hand as shown in the aforementioned photographs so that PC Bird could photograph bloodied fingermarks that were present upon the front lower part of her nightdress. When Cook was asked about the photograph of the rifle (23) at the bedroom window, his answer was (with the benefit of hindsight) very telling. It was very telling because when Cook was asked did he know who had placed that rifle, there? He responded by saying, 'that he had'. He testified that 'he had' placed the rifle there, after PC Bird had finished taking all the photographs showing Sheila' s body in possession of the rifle. Cook testified to the effect that once he had removed the gun from Sheila's body, he had handed the gun to Police Inspector Montgomery to check it to make sure it was safe. Once this had been done, Cook stated that he had then placed the rifle against the bedroom window, as depicted in photograph No.23. The gist of the testimony given by both PC Bird, and DI Cook, was that photographs which showed Sheila's possession of the rifle (photo's, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33) were taken before, photograph No.23, which shows the same rifle resting against the window. This testimony was false, and by anybody's standard, amounts to 'perverting the course of justice', because both Bird and Cook knew that photograph No.23, was taken before photographs, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33). We now know, with the benefit of hindsight, that the rifle was photographed at the bedroom window (23), then somebody brought the rifle from the window and positioned 'it' upon Sheila's body, and only then had PC Bird photographed it there, as per photo's, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33. Now that we know this, Cook also lied about the different positions of Sheila's hands when compared in photo's, 29 / 30, by claiming that he had moved them so that PC Bird could photograph bloodied fingermarks upon the front lower part of her nightdress. The stark truth is that PC Bird could have photographed those bloodied fingermarks on the said nightdress whilst the rifle was resting against the bedroom window as depicted at the time Bird himself had taken photograph No.23. The different positions of Sheila's right arm, and her hand, as shown in photographs, No. 29 / 30, was evidence of the fact that 'Ron' Cook, himself was totally responsible for staging Sheila's death scene, which was then photographed by his sidekick PC Bird. The jury had no way of knowing that the photographic evidence had been taken only after the positions of the three adult victims had been moved or displaced during a training exercise which had lasted 'one hour' between 9 and 10 O'clock, and that Senior Officers at the scene had given Cook strict instructions for him to make sure that the gun was photographed on Sheila Caffells body accurately...
