The Court of appeal, nor the CCRC, have yet entertained the notion that two different identical looking silencers lay at the heart of the matter. They have only considered issues surrounding the possible use of a solitary silencer...
DS 'Stan' Jones, returned to the farmhouse mid morning, and he took possession of four 'SBJ' exhibits, including a silencer 'SBJ/1', on the 7th August, 1985. Of course, when he was interviewed by COLP in 1991, he conveniently could not remember the reason for him having returned to the farmhouse, on that first morning', nor what he had done on that occasion. Interestingly enough, non of the SOCO's on duty at the scene, remembered that 'Stan' Jones had returned to the scene when he had done. It creates an air of suspicion concerning the possibility that the find and recovery of a silencer ('SBJ/1') at the scene on that first morning, had occurred, but for one reason or another, cops decided to cover it up. One thing is absolutely true, and that is the fact that 'Stan' Jones recovered exhibits, 'SBJ/1', 'SBJ/2', 'SBJ/3', and 'SBJ/4', at the scene on the 7th August, 1985...