rifle observed resting against upstairs window prior to entry by firearm officers
7.30am
COMMANDER Adams
no rifle in kitchen
'the body of one dead male, and one dead female found on entry to kitchen '(7.37am)
'one dead male, one dead female' (7.38am)
'can you contact your police surgeon, and Coroner's officer, regarding two bodies, one male, one female' (7.42am)
'can you come into office police are dealing with an incident at whf, involving a murder and a suicide' (7.45am)
'after a thorough search of the premises, a further three bodies found upstairs. Five dead in total' (8.10am)
8.30am
COMMANDER Montgomery
rifle at window brought to body
'Ralph Bamber downstairs in kitchen'
'June Bamber and Sheila Caffell in main bedroom'
Daniel and Nicholas Caffell in adjoining bedroom'...
later that evening at a debriefing, senior officers gave following instruction to junior officers
'make sure you write your notes up and your reports along the lines that what we were dealing with was four murders and a suicide'...
Whilst PS Adams was the Commander, the female body referred to in the kitchen, was the suicide mentioned by 'Linda' in the control room when she contacted 'DS Davidson' at his home at 7.45am, and requested him to come into the office because police were dealing with an incident at whf involving two bodies, a murder and a suicide'. These two bodies could only be reference to the bodies of Ralph and Sheila, where Ralph's death was referred to as a murder, and Sheila's death being referred to as a suicide...
June Bambers death could not have been described as a suicide...
There were only two female bodies amongst the five victims...
The bodies were found in the following order, Ralph (a murder), Sheila (a suicide), June (a murder), Daniel (a murder), and Nicholas (a murder) according to the police radio message log contents. But if the witness statement version of events is relied upon, the order in which Sheila and June's bodies were found, are reversed, so that Ralph's body (a murder) was found first, June's body (a murder) was found second, then Sheila's body (a suicide) found thirdly, followed by the deaths of the twin boys (both murders)...
Now, the interesting thing in so far as the witness statement version of events, is that only one body was supposedly found downstairs, that being a male body, the body of Ralph Bamber. The second body that the firearm officers come upon is June Bambers body which was just inside the entrance to the main bedroom, she had been shot a total of 7 times...
Hardly likely then, that June's death could have been described as a suicide?
Next, came the discovery of Sheila's body in the same bedroom. Hers being the third body that was found, it being correctly interpreted as a suicide. But before the discovery of Sheila's body, there would have had to be reported two murders, then a suicide. But, as we know, independent messages were passed from the scene at 7.42am, for the police surgeon, and the Coroner's officer to be contacted regarding the discovery of two bodies, one male, and a female...
We know that the first two bodies referred to, involved one dead male, and one dead female. We know that police were talking in terms of one of these deaths having been a murder, whilst the second death was being talked about in terms of it having been a suicide - now, if June Bamber was the second body found her death could not be described as it having been regarded as a suicide...