Thats what I said, it got refered to Sound Moderator once it had been to Huntington in my guess, Fletchers statement is dated 13/November And Howard is 3/October I would hazard a guess that even though they are talking about earlier dates, the actual letters are later dates. I find it strange he would write a statement Saying he was handed a Sound Moderator so early in his statement, then refer to this without any prompt in Court as a Silencer?
The whole purpose of someone creating a composite witness statement for somebody else, is to suggest that the named witness made such a statement of their own free will, when clearly this is not the case. The fact that whoever created DS Jones 8th September 1985 composite witness statement and used the description of the gun suppressor as being 'A SOUND MODERATOR', rather than a silencer as you are suggesting Stan Jones would have described it, only serves to highlight why these composite witness statements should not be created and used for evidential purposes, since the named witness has no control or very little if any input into the body or contents of the composite statement being created for them by another...
I am more interested in the timing of when this composite witness statement was created, as well as its contents...
Why did someone create this version of that composite witness statement?
Well, its no secret that Stan Jones must have felt like a big weight had been lifted off his shoulders when his boss, DCI 'Taff' Jones was removed from his post as head of the investigation, and replaced by DCS 'Mick' Ainsley. It seems to me that it allowed Stan Jones leeway of sorts to delve into the troublesome aspects of the case. For example, it must have been very frustrating having seen the bodies of the two female victims laid on top of the bed, on that first morning, only for him to find out later on, that June Bambers body had been photographed on the floor by the bedroom door, and with Sheila's body ending up on the floor on the opposite side of the bed, clutching the rifle? It must have been somewhat puzzling to 'Stan' Jones to see that Sheila had got two bullet wounds to her neck by the time her body was eventually photographed, whereas there had only been one bullet wound there when he viewed her body insitu on top of the bed! Then there was all the additional blood which according to the crime scene photographs taken once her body had been moved from the bed to the floor, ran horizontal in fashion across her neck and from the corners of her mouth, and nostril? There was no such blood staining of that nature when he had looked at Sheila laying on top of the bed earlier! And, that large triangular shaped bloodstain on the right hand side of Sheila's nightdress, which wasn't there previously!
It must have been very frustrating for Stan Jones to be on the receiving end of 'Taff' Jones tongue, over disclosing information to Ann Eaton and the other relatives regarding the location and position of June and Sheila's bodies laid on top of the bed, side by side, as witnessed by him prior to attending Jeremy's cottage at 9 Head Street, on that first morning of the police investigation, only to discover later that the two bodies had been displaced from the bed to different parts of the bedroom floor, either side of the bed...
There must have been doubts in Stan Jones mind, about what had happened to Sheila after he left the scene in the company of DC 'Mick' Clark and Jeremy...
'Taff' Jones did not confide in him, and Stan Jones knew better than to ask questions of him...
