As the statement by Ds Jones, dated 8th September 1985, is a bit awkward to read, I've retyped it below.
On Wednesday, 7th August, 1985, I attended the scene of a multiple
shooting incident at white house farm, Tolleshunt D'arcy, Essex, and I
took possession of a sound moderator, which I later handed to Detective
Chief Inspector 'Taff' Jones, at Witham Police station, as instructed.
On Friday, 9th August, 1985, together with DCI Jones I attended white
house farm and I covertly returned the aforementioned sound
moderator to the farmhouse, again, acting under the authority of
Detective Chief Inspector 'Taff' JONES.
On Monday, 12th August, 1985, I received possession of a sound
moderator from Peter Eaton, at his home address. I later placed this
item in a locked drawer in the scenes of crime department at Witham
police station overnight. However, on the following morning, Tuesday
I handed the aforementioned sound moderator to Detective
Inspector 'Ron' Cook. I can identify the sound moderator by a label
which I have signed.
The statement doesn't mention where in the farmhouse the sound moderator was located when Ds Jones took possession of it on 7th August 1985, or where in the farmhouse he put the sound moderator when he covertly returned it on 9th August 1985.
Hi Reader, all I can say in response to your query, is that Jones did return to the scene from Jeremy's cottage as a result of a telephone call he received from 'Taff' Jones to collect the Sound moderator and bring it to him at his Witham office that same date! As yet I have not discovered any fresh material supporting this but there is evidence elsewhere in the file that I have already seen that DCI Jones kept a silencer on his desk and was using it as a paper weight, and that a police officer took possesssion of it and checked it to see if it fitted onto the end of the anshuzt rifles barrel. I believe I am right in saying that many years ago that I drew reference to this fact!
This event if it occurred, gives a prime example of how blood could have ggot into the inside of the silencer - it was forced in as a result of dynamic tension created on the external thread on the end of the guns barrel and the internal thread on the inside of the bottom end of the silencer, which when swcrewed together in an airtight fashion, any dried blood on the external thread on the end of the guns barrel would be forced back into the silencer...
This could explain the presence of Sheila's blood in the form of a small dried flake being found at a later date trapped betweeen baffle plates within...
I now remember where that information came from, it was PC Whiddon who took possesssion of the silencer that was on DCI Jones desk...
With regard to your next point, I not responsible for what DS Jones records in his witness statements ( and I have to say, in view of the tampering of witness statements and documents by Essex police in this case, perhaps or maybe DS Jones himself did not know what someone else decided to include or exclude when they prepared that composite version of a witness statement in his name! Nevertheless, we now know that Essex police did take possession of at least one silencer from the scene on the first morning of the investigation, a silencer referred to elsewhere as exhibit 'SBJ/1', and that this must be true because elsewhere in a property register, DS Jones also took possession of three further exhibits from the scene that same date (7th August 1985) bearing the exhibit reference marks, of SBJ/4, SBJ/3 and SBJ/2...
Logic surely must dictate that in light of these other items of evidential value (SBJ/4, SBJ/2 and SBJ/2) that DS Jones must also have taken possession and control of a further item (SBJ/1), a fact now confirmed by the discovery of the latest composite version of a statement made in his name, dated, 8th September, 1985...
I remember speaking on a one to one basis with Jeremy on many occasions when I was incarcerated with him at HMP Full Sutton (1989 / 1990) and he told me that DS Jones had left his cottage to go back to the scene, and that on that occasion he had seized a number of exhibits. In particular, he thought, was Anthony Pargeters Bruno make bolt action rifle, which we thought had been exhibit SBJ/1...
Jeremy has always been consistent in saying that Anthony Pargeters rifle and silencer had been at whf at the time of the shootings! He emphasised this by saying that his father Neville Bamber would never have let Pargeter remove his gun from thee farmhouse because he was a Justice of the Peace, and it would have constituted him allowing the law to be broken! I have to agree with what Jeremy was saying, and I think that the Pargeter rifle was at the scene at the material time, along with his silencer! I am niot bothered that the COLP investigators got a witness statement from Anthony Pargeter stating that on the penultimate week-end prior to the shootings, that he removed his gun and took it home with him to Bournend in Buckinghamshire...
Cops will do and say anything, or get people to say things which are not necesssarily true if it makes for a easier and less stresssful investigation...
Anyways, we now know that DS Jones went back to the farmhouse from Jeremy's cottage (a fact also confirmed by police logs which record his arrival there, and later on his exit) and that he took possession of the silencer. The cops had the silencer before David Boutflour found the same silencer, or did David Boutflour find the Pargeter silencer? Remember, there were two silencers at the scene acccording to Jeremy Bambers account at the time of the shootings!
I have no idea why it doesn't mention the exact location at the farmhouse wwhere DS Jones seized the silencer he took from, or who might have handed it to him on that occasion. Nevertheless, the facts speak for themselves, Jones did take possession of a silencer on the first morning of the police handling of the case, and that is what is important...
