Cops and relatives can insist there was only ever the 'one silencer' found at the scene, but the truth of the matter is that two different identical looking ones were recovered, the first belonging to Anthony Pargeters ,Bruno rifle', and the second one belonging to the Bamber family owned 'anshuzt rifle'. The first one handed over to DS 'Stan' Jones, by Peter Eaton on the 12th August 1985, the second one handed over to DC Oakey by Ann Eaton on the 11th September 1985. None of the items which eventually were given 'DRB' exhibit references, found their way into police possession until on or after the 11th September 1985. This 'triggered' widespread editing of documentary evidence in the investigation, where the exhibit references to the first silencer (SJ or SBJ/1) were abruptly 'altered' because there had originally been some confusion over who had found 'this' silencer (DS 'Stan' Jones, or David Boutflour) and so 'it' got made into 'DB/1' by the 30th August 1985. However, once the second silencer was handed over to DC Oakey by Ann Eaton on the 11th September 1985, which DS Davidson and DS Eastwood had 'fingerprinted' on the 13th September 1985, and then which had been submitted to the lab' on the 20th September 1985, to be checked for 'blood' and 'fibres, cops decided to 'merge' both of these identical looking silencers into one. By the 17th November 1985, further steps were taken to 'alter' documentary evidence, thereby making it possible for the authorities to present the silencer as 'exhibit DRB/1'...
PI 'Bob' Miller (Operations manager) was tasked with trying to make sure that the exhibit reference to the silencer that was to be relied upon at the forthcoming trial, would all be 'DRB/1'. This can be verified by independent hand written notes upon which 'Miller' gives instruction for various witness statements to be 'altered' by making the silencer exhibit references into DRB/1', from, 'DB/1', and 'SBJ/1'. What this demonstrates is that cops did not simply swap over the key silencers, but that a lot of effort had gone into trying to create a false 'continuity' trail by 'altering' witness statement, as well as lab' records, as can be evidenced by the aforementioned explanation. During the trial, the silencer was always referred to, and mentioned, by referring to 'its' exhibit reference of 'DRB/1', lab' item number 22. There was no clues available at that stage for anyone to know about the full history behind the covert introduction of the second silencer, which had replaced the first one. No incline that the silencer exhibited during the trial, had in fact not been the same silencer which Peter Eaton had handed over to 'Stan' Jones on the 12th August 1985. The silencer relied upon during the trial, had not been the same silencer which 'Stan' Jones had shown to 'Bob' Miller on the morning of the 13th August 1985, which Miller had instructed Jones to give 'it' to 'Ron' Cook that same date ('it' being a different silencer than the one which would eventually be relied upon during the trial). The silencer relied upon during the October 1986 trial was not the same silencer which 'Ron' Cook had taken to the lab'at Huntingdon for Glynis Howard to examine on that same date, upon which was found 'animals' and Human' bloods. The silencer which was eventually relied upon during the trial was not the same silencer which Glynis Howard had handed back to 'Ron' Cook on the 13th August 1985. Neither was 'that' particular silencer which Cook had 'fingerprinted on the 15th August 1985' by way of an oblique light test, the same silencer relied on during the trial, nor was 'it' the same silencer that 'Ron' Cook once more had ' fingerprinted' by 'superglue technique' on the 23rd August 1985. The silencer relied upon during the October 1986 trial (DRB/1) was not the same silencer which Cook had been carrying around in his grubby coat pocket for 17 days and nights (between 13th to 30th August 1985), and which he had himself dismantled, rebuilt and had screwed ' that' silencer directly onto the barrel of the anshuzt rifle. The silencer (DB/1) that Cook had sent to the lab' at Huntingdon on the 30th August 1985, for the attention of the ballistic expert, 'Malcolm' Fletcher, inside which it has been claimed the key flake of dried blood was subsequently obtained on the 12th September 1975, cannot and was not the same silencer relied upon during the trial on the following year. No, none of those events involved 'the silencer' which came to be relied upon during the trial...
The silencer (DRB/1) that came to be relied upon during the trial, was the one Ann Eaton handed to DC Oakey on the 11th September 1985. It was ' the silencer' (DRB/1) which DS Davidson and DS Eastwood had 'fingerprinted at 1800 hrs on the 13th September 1985. 'It' was the silencer (DRB/1) which got sent to the lab'' at Huntingdon on the 20th September 1985, to be 'checked' for 'blood' and 'fibers'. The silencer (DRB/1) which found itself at the heart of the prosecutions case when Bamber stood trial in October 1986, was the same silencer which was 'examined' at the lab' on I think was the 29th April 1986, by amongst others, Glynis Howard, in the company of a defence expert, at a time when the internal baffle plates of 'it' had the jaws of the baffles upward facing, whereas, when 'Ron' Cook had dismantled the 'other' silencer on the 29th August 1985, the jaws of the baffle plates of 'that' silencer had been 'downward facing'...
What we now know, is that the key blood group evidence ( A, EAP BA, AK/1, and HP2/1) could 'not' have been recovered from inside the silencer (DRB/1) relied upon during the trial, quite simply because by the time 'that' (DRB/1) silencer got sent to the lab' (20th September 1985) to be checked for 'blood', the key flake of dried blood had 'already been 'found' inside the 'other' silencer (DB/1) 9 days beforehand, and furthermore, the flake itself, had 'already' been analysed, and the aforementioned blood group activity 'obtained', long before the second silencer (DRB/1) had even been sent to be examined at the lab'. So, there it is, laid out threadbare, 'the flake' was 'not' found' inside the silencer (DRB/1) relied upon during the trial. His flake had and must have been found in the other silencer (DB/1), the silencer that cops had sent to the lab' 21 days before the second silencer (DRB/1) got sent there. The court was therefore, deceived by the relatives, the cops, and scientific staff at Huntingdon, because they all knew that there had been two different identical parker hale silencers at the heart of the police investigation and that the key blood group evidence surounding the flake ( A, EAP BA, AK/1, and HP2/1) did 'not' originate from inside 'DRB/1', but rather, that it originated from inside the 'other' silencer (DB/1)...
The confusion over who had 'found' the silencer which 'Ron' Cook had taken to the lab' on 13th August 1985, arose because Cook had it in his mind 'on that date' that DS Jones had been the finder of 'that' silencer (SJ, or SBJ/1). This was because on the 7th August 1985, DS 'Stan' Jones had returned to the scene from Jeremy's cottage, and whilst present at the farmhouse DS Jones had seized or taken four exhibits (SBJ/1, 2, 3 and 4). One of those items (SBJ/1) being 'a silencer'. What Cook did not know on the 13th August 1985, was that Peter Eaton had handed the first of the two silencers over to DS Jones, on the previous evening. Hence why, according to Cook, upon arriving at the lab' with 'that' silencer, he attached an exhibit label, and marked it with the identifying mark oi 'SJ/1', not SBJ/1. The reason Cook marked that silencer 'SJ/1' was because Cook told COLP that he was 'unaware' that DS Jones had another Christian name other than 'Stan' (Brian). What this tells us, is that by the 7th August 1985, cops 'already' had possession of one silencer (SBJ/1) linked to the police investigation. This was the silencer which 'Stan' Jones took from the scene along with the other three 'SBJ' exhibits. Then by 12th August 1985, cops received the first of two different identical looking silencers from Peter Eaton (his wife, Ann would eventually hand over the second of the two silencers, to DC Oakey, on the 11th September 1985). What becomes clear to me, is that the silencer given to Jones by Peter Eaton on the evening of 12th August 1985, was the one that 'Ron' Cook had taken to the lab' on the following day. This brings me onto the whereabouts of the silencer (SBJ/1) which 'Stan' Jones had seized from the scene on the first morning of the investigation? I am confident that 'this' particular silencer, (SBJ/1) found its way onto DCI 'Taff' Jones desk, at Witham police station. Much later, when the confusion regarding the finder of the silencer which 'Ron' Cook had marked up, 'SJ/1' at the lab' came to light, to save further confusion, 'that' silencer (SJ/1) was reallocated exhibit reference, 'DB/1', and sent back to the lab' on the 30th August 1985...
