More disturbingly, was the manner with which Essex police and the relatives combined efforts to utilize the death of Sheila Caffells body on the main bedroom floor, to make out the case that she could not have killed herself because with the silencer fitted to the barrel of the rifle, the overall length of the gun would have been too long to enable Sheila to shoot and kill herself even if she had wanted to...
The blood in the silencer turning out to be the icing on the cake, since it was successfully argued at trial that once Sheila sustained the second fatal shot, she could not have removed the silencer from the gun and taken it downstairs to conceal it in a cupboard in the den!