This analysis of the blood on the nightdress worn by Sheila on the night of the shootings contradicts the suggestion that the blood from the silencer was unique to her, unless someone deliberately contaminated it with her blood! This is because of the blood types found to be present on her nightdress supports the fact that she did shoot the other four victims! Blood from the victims that she shot spattered back, spurted, or dripped on her nightdress where it was discovered on the 6th September 1985! With this in mind, and Sheila being the shooter of the other four victims, how then could she have shot herself with that silencer fitted to the end of the family owned anshuzt rifle, and permit her blood to be forced back into the end of the silencer, killing herself and then unscrewing the silencer and managing to take it all the way downstairs to conceal it in the gun cupboard in the den, and then go back upstairs and lay down dead again on the bedroom floor with the silencerless rifle in her possession? She couldn't and she didn't! Sheila Caffell did not shoot herself! Jeremy Bamber did not shoot her! The police did!
Coming back to the silencer, who supposedly found it and when the key blood group evidence came to light!
DS 'Stan' Jones returned to the farmhouse during the late morning of 7 August 1985, from Jeremy's cottage where both he and DC 'Mick' Clark had been taking Jeremy's first witness statement! Jones took possession of a silencer on that occasion, which was initially labelled 'SBJ/1'! He eventually handed this silencer to DCI 'Taff' Jones who retained it on top of his desk at Witham police station until evening of 9th August 1985, at which stage Jones and Jones took the silencer in question back to the farmhouse and left it in the gun cupboard! What cops didn't appreciate however, was that there existed two identical looking Parker hale silencers at the farmhouse, one belonging to Anthony Pargeters Bruno bolt action rifle, and a second one belonging to Neville Bambers Anshuzt semi automatic rifle! The only difference between both was the internal design including one of the two silencers having 17 baffles, a flat washer, and screw thread Knut! The other had fewer baffles! The former belonged to Anthony Pargeter, the latter one to Neville Bamber! The first had been purchased by Anthony Pargeter in 1980, and the second purchased by Neville Bamber in late November 1984!
On 10 August 1985, the relatives recovered one of the two silencers!
This was subsequently collected by DS 'Stan' Jones from 'Peter' Eaton on the evening of 12 August 1985! On the following morning, Jones gave the silencer to DI 'Ron' Cook, after being advised to do so by PI 'Bob' Miller! Cook took possession of the said silencer, and noticing that it did not have an exhibit label, he duly attached one, and gave it the exhibit reference of 'SJ/1'! Cook explained to the COLP investigators years later, that the reason he originally gave it the exhibit reference of 'SJ/1' was because he didn't know that 'Stan' Jones had a middle name, and although Jones offered him no explanation regarding where the silencer was from, Cook remembered that on the first morning of the police investigation that DS Jones had returned to the farmhouse (before midday) after the second SOCO team had taken control of the scene (at around 10 am) and he had taken possession of a silencer! Cook therefore thought it was that silencer, and that 'Stan' Jones was the finder!
On 11th September 1985, relatives found the second silencer at the farmhouse, (this would later be referred to as a 'Sound Moderator' to distinguish it from the other identical silencer) concealed in the same gun cupboard as the other one! This was duly handed over to DC Oakey by Ann Eaton on that same date! It was provisionally given the exhibit reference of 'AE/1', was subsequently altered to 'CAE/1', and was eventually referred to as exhibit 'DRB/1'...
