We have also heard, by reference to the testimony of 'Ron' Cook, and 'David Bird, that Cook removed the anshuzt rifle from the body at 11.10am, that morning, and that no-one had touched the rifle prior to that stage. No-one, as it were had checked it to see whether it was still loaded, or even taken measures to make it safe. We know that this cannot possibly be true, because 'that' rifle was photographed leaning against the 'main bedroom window (refer photograph, 23 of negative strip 0012), by PC Bird (SOCO) before he took photographs of it on Sheila's body (refer photographs, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 of negative strip 0034). There still exists some confusion as to which upstairs window Sheila had 'showed off' the rifle at around 7.15am, a rifle that was seen by both WPC Jeapes, and PC Brown. I will return to that matter shortly, but first please understand that cops only ever found 'one rifle' upstairs during their search that morning. So, if the only rifle that was upstairs had been 'shown off' at any one of the upstairs windows, does it not suggest in the strongest terms imaginable to man or beast, that there was somebody alive, inside the farmhouse at 'that' time (7.15am), and beyond? How utterly remarkable, therefore, that the only rifle found upstairs at the scene just so happens to get photographed in Sheila Caffells possession at around 10.20am...
If 'that' rifle had not been 'shown off' at the main bedroom window, but say another room upstairs, then what that means, is that cops must have brought 'that' rifle from the 'other upstairs room, into the main bedroom, and physically planted it upon Sheila's body. Indeed, during the 'familiars' exercise, cops had brought 'that' rifle to Sheila's body, placed it in her possession in the mistaken belief that she was already dead, and the weapon got discharged firing the so called fatal bullet that lodged in her brain. The rifle was 'then' placed at the main bedroom window where it remained until a short while after PC Bird photographed it there with photograph, 23 of negative 0012. We know or at least we have been told that 'Ron' Cook himself had removed 'that' rifle from Sheila's body at 11.10am, and with the assistance of PI Montgomery, how it had been checked at 'that' stage, made safe, given back to Cook, and how Cook had then replaced it at the main bedroom window. But hang on a minute, PS Woodcock states that 'he had removed the rifle from Sheila's body, that he had checked it and made the weapon safe...
Two different firearm officers, checking the anshuzt rifle, and making it safe after 'it' had been removed from Sheila's body, with only one of these two named officers being named by 'Ron' Cook as having done so in his presence. Now, 'Ron' Cook did not arrive at the scene until 9.20am, by which stage the rifle had already been brought from an upstairs window onto Sheila's body, and discharged killing her with certainty. Once the shot had been fired, it is understood that PS Woodcock removed the rifle at that stage, checked it, and made it safe, before placing it at the main bedroom window, where it remained until just before 10.20am, when 'somebody' brought it from the bedroom window 'after' PC Bird had captured its presence there in photograph, 23 of negative strip 0012, and proceeded to place 'it' into Sheila's possession so that PC Bird (SOCO) could get 'the position of the gun right on the body' - that's what 'Ron' Cook told PC Bird, when he had allowed PC Bird into the farmhouse for the very first time. He had said to PC Bird, 'make sure you get the position of the rifle right on the body'...
How utterly amazing, that Cook should admit 'that' to PC Bird (SOCO), 'make sure you get the position of the rifle right on the body'...
Cook told PC Bird that because Cook knew by 'that' stage the anshuzt rifle was not with the body. That rifle was leaning against the main bedroom window, where PS Woodcock had placed it soon after 9.13am, when it had discharged a round under Sheila's chin...
