Consider the following features of evidence:-
There was only ever just the one SM. The relatives found it at the scene (whf) on the 10th August 1985, and after it was handed to the police by Peter Eaton on 12th August 1985, it led the following charmed life in the possession of Essex police, the lab' from that date until it was eventually produced as a court exhibit (9) during the trial of Regina versus Jeremy Bamber, at Chelmsford Crown Court, in October 1986:-
The SM fell into the possession of Essex police at a time when the police file was SC/688/85, it was subsequently taken to the lab' to be provisionally examined by Glynis Howard on 13th August 1985, under an identifying mark of SJ/1 (Lab' item number 22)! It should be noted that to all intents and purposes between 13th and 30th August 1985, Lab' item number 23 was vacated without explanation, the vacating of which helped Essex police and their Lab' collaborators, to introduce either a second SM, the Brno bolt action rifle, or a flake of dried blood which David Boutflour had scraped off the outside of a SM using a razor blade!
Involved in this police investigation at different times, were key exhibits which got introduced in a substitution process of exhibits, the purpose of which has been to clone the substituted item with a replacement and to proceed from that point forward as though such an item had always been the same item throughout its lifetime as an exhibit! I am here to inform you that many such items did not start of life as the exhibit in question from the outset, some were introduced once the police file changed from SC/688/85 to SC/786/85, or later on...
I would like to take this opportunity to provide background information about the SM bearing the exhibit reference of DRB/1, 22, court exhibit no.9, the vehicle with which the key blood group and paint evidence got introduced into the case!
The SM (DRB/1, 22, court exhibit no.9) was not the SM inside which was supposedly found the key blood group evidence attributable uniquely to Sheila Caffell, allegedly found in the form of a flake of dried blood that was trapped between two internal barrel plates of a SM which had been dismantled at the Lab' in Huntingdon on the 12th September 1985! Well, I can categorically confirm that the SM inside which the key blood flake had been found, was definitely not the SM (DRB/1, 22, court exhibit no.9) because this particular SM was still in the possession of Essex police, on the key date in Question...
So, if the crucial flake of dried blood could not possibly have been found inside the SM (DRB/1, 22, court exhibit no.9) it can only lead to two other possible explanations as to where the key flake of dried blood had originated from:-
(1) - it was found inside a second SM that Essex police had submitted to the lab' on the 30th August 1985, under an exhibit reference of DB/1, (23), or that (2) - exhibit DB/1 (23) was the actual flake of dried blood which David Boutflour had scraped off the enbd of a SM, using a razor blade!
In order to get a better picture of what probably did occur, we need to look carefully at the facts surrounding how Ann Eaton still had the SM, (DRB/1, 22, court exhibit no.9) in her possession as late as the 11th September 1985? Well, we know she did, and therefore, there would have to have been two different SM's which between themselves, the cops, the experts at the lab' and the relatives manipulated in such a way that it only appeared as if there only ever could have been one SM...
Well, if there was only the One SM, as attested by the relatives, cops and experts, one thing for certain must be that cops must have given the SM back to the relatives for one reason or another, and that there simply was no SM at the Lab' on the 12th September 1985, for the ballistic expert to find a flake of blood trapped between two of its baffle plates!! Therefore, I have concluded that it must have been the flake of blood which David Boutflour had scraped off a SM previously!
This flake of blood must have been sent to the Lab' at Huntingdon, by Ron Cook, who in turn had retrieved it from David Boutflour!
After the flake (DB/1, 23) arrived at the lab', it was analysed and it produced key blood group evidence (A, EAP BA, AK1, and HP 2-1)!
