Information in red taken from officers report concerning the shooting incident in the kitchen. A decision was taken amongst Senior officer Harris and ACC Peter Simpson, that shooting in kitchen could be explained away as having occurred in the bedroom, and that the same gun had fired both shots (the reason for the removal of the silencer by police was purely for technical reasons, designed to conceal use of a police issue weapon in the killing of Sheila Caffell)...
We can only assume that once Sheila had placed the loaded rifle at a first floor window, that she made her way downstairs to the kitchen (unarmed). This must be true because at 7.37am, cops reported the body of one female in the kitchen. This could only be reference to Sheila being present in the kitchen. Cops must have known she had been shot at that stage, because they reported her as being dead. Sheila can't have been shot twice at that time, because otherwise she could never have made it upstairs to the main bedroom after 8.10am. The fact that her body ended up on the main bedroom floor, informs us that the second fatal shot ('PV/19) was not fired until she was back in her parents bedroom. The photographs which show the rifle (23) at the main bedroom window, prior to it being photographed in Sheila's possession (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33) confirms that the rifle was brought from the window and was retained by the victim. The crux in all this, rests with the original placement of the rifle at the first floor window at 7.15am, and the fact that somebody must have placed the rifle there prior to police entering the farmhouse. It's later position upon Sheila's body in time for PC Bird to photograph it there after 10.00 am can only lead to the inevitable conclusion that either Sheila herself collected the rifle from the first floor window herself, or that somebody else brought the rifle from that first floor window. Alarm bells should be ringing, because if Sheila collected the rifle herself from the first floor window, she must have done so at some point after 7.15am, when Jeapes and Brown both saw the rifle resting against a first floor window. If Sheila took the rifle from that window as described, then of course, Jeremy Bamber could not have shot and killed her. Next - if somebody else brought the rifle to Sheila's body whilst she lay on the main bedroom floor, again this could only have happened after 8.10am, because by that stage there was only three bodies upstairs. The only people who could have brought the rifle from the first floor window was the cops, themselves. Ask yourselves 'why would cops bring the rifle from a first floor window and place the rifle with Sheila's body? The only possible explanation is that they thought they might be able to get away with saying that Sheila had shot herself once in the throat with use of the family rifle upstairs, rather than by a police issue weapon downstairs in the kitchen. Hence, why the rifle was brought from that first floor window and positioned upon Sheila's body. It was positioned along the front of her body during the performance of 'informatives', which commenced in the bedroom at 9 O'clock sharp. The rifle was laid upon Sheila's body with the muzzle in the general area of the solitary bullet wound situated there. It is believed that the silencer was attached to the barrel of the gun at this time. This had the effect of making the length from muzzle to trigger a greater distance than normal. However, with manipulation of the fingers of Sheila Caffells right hand, the trigger could be reached and with a little help from a police officer, her fingers could activate the trigger mechanism. This is what did occur. With the silencer fitted, cops couldn't get the muzzle of the silencer and Sheila's trigger finger to match the distance from her trigger finger and the position of the single bullet wound on her throat. This was because with the silencer fitted to the guns barrel the distance between Sheila's outreached trigger finger and the bullet entry hole in her throat was shorter than the distance between her outstretched trigger finger and the muzzle of the silencer - hence, when her trigger finger activated the trigger which fired the fatal round (PV/19), it produced a second bullet wound higher up in the throat of Sheila Caffell than the original bullet entry wound. Once the second shot got activated it startled everybody present. Although it was an accidental shooting in bizarre circumstances it could have been prevented if someone had checked and made the rifle from the first floor window safe before it was placed upon the body. The cops found themselves now with two bullet wounds in Sheila's neck. Senior officers gathered around the body on the floor pondering how best to proceed in presenting the death of Sheila there on the bedroom floor? Harris, Gibbons, Clarke and Jones huddled close to the body, pondering, until Harris said, 'well, there's nothing else for it', he said, 'But' to take the damn silencer off the barrel' (of the rifle). Gibbons questioned his decision, 'Why that, then'?
Harris countered, 'because, with the damn silencer still engaged upon the barrel', he said, ' the damn gun is too long to enable her to have shot herself with the bloody gun because it's too long', said he, 'the length doesn't effect the last shot and the distance between the muzzle end of the silencer to the furthest position of her trigger finger, because that last wound', he says, ' is higher up on the throat', says he, 'But' that distance between the same position of her outstretched trigger finger and the position of the lower entry wound, is shorter', he sighed, adding, 'the same gun can't have fired both of these shots because the distances from her outstretched trigger finger to the lower entry wound is too shot', there's nothing for it but to take off the 'silencer', he said, 'then get the rifle photographed with the body, minus the 'silencer', he says, 'then we can present the death as a shooting where the victim committed suicide using the same gun', he finishes...
Silencer was removed from gun after this conversation, and the rifle gauged using the victims outstretched trigger finger and the clean threaded muzzle of the barrel, so as to verify that it was possible for the rifle in question to have inflicted both wounds...
Clarke, 'the fact that there are two shots to the throat could be explained away, as recoil', he said. 'YES' responded Harris, 'sounds like a damn good explanation' , says he, 'right, I'll leave it in your capable hands, I'm leaving'...
'We can sort the ballistics out later', said Harris, adding, ' now, get rid of that damn silencer, put it away, somewhere', he said, 'preferrably as far away from the body, as possible', his trembling voice tailing off..
