I think that the rifle that was captured in one of the crime scene photographs may well have been Anthony Pargeters .22 Bruno rifle!
According to what DS Davidson (SOCO) told the COLP investigators during his police interview, he told them some paint had been found on the end of a guns barrel! COLP put it to him, was he referring to the paint being on the end of the Sound Moderator, and Davidson responded by saying 'NO', he said, the paint was found on the end of a guns barrel, not a silencer!
If the barrel of Pargeters Bruno rifle had come into contact with the kitchen aga and scratched it, this of course might cast doubt on the possibility that the Sound Moderator had been fitted to the anshuzt rifles barrel at the time Neville Bamber was attacked and killed in the kitchen! But if true, where was the Sound Moderator that was normally fitted to the end of the Bruno rifles barrel?
This is where DS Jones comes into the picture, because on the first morning of the investigation he returns to the scene and he takes a total of 4 exhibits from the scene, albeit one of these exhibits was a photograph he took inside the downstairs toilet where Anthony Pargeter normally kept his rifle ammunitions and his Sound Moderator! Jones took possession of. Sound Moderator on that occasion, I can't help but think that the Sound Moderator (SBJ/1) he took was the one belonging to Anthony Pargeters Bruno rifle, which either must have become detached, or it had been removed from the end of the barrel of his rifle, at some point after the shooting incident in the kitchen when Sheila got shot during a struggle with one of the firearms officers..
My informant told me that Sheila was shot when a firearms officer came around the opening edge of the internal kitchen door after Neville Bambers body had been toppled over, and that during the struggle that Sheila appeared to pull the muzzle end of the guns barrel in towards her throat, and that this was how she received the initial non fatal shot to which all the police radio message log contents refer to between 7.35am and 8.10am (two bodies downstairs in kitchen upon entry)...
I was led to believe that the weapon used was a police issue gun, but it now seems as though the initial shot fired across and into Sheila's neck could have been a shot fired via the Bruno rifle at a time when it's Sound Moderator was fixed to its barrel! There exists a sort of circular bruise or an abrasion around the lower neck wound on Sheila Caffell's neck which I have always believed had been made at the time the first shot had been inflicted! I now realise that Sheila could have been shot by the Pargeter rifle with its Sound Moderator attached, during the struggle with the police in the kitchen, and that the muzzle of Anthony Pargeters sound moderator made the mark in question!
This has got to be true, otherwise why would there be a note about a rifle that was captured in the crime scene in the kitchen not to be mentioned by anybody in their notes, or witness statements?
That rifle was almost certainly the weapon used to inflict that first shot into Sheila Caffell's neck, more importantly it can't have been the anshuzt rifle because that was found upstairs in the possession of Sheila's body on the main bedroom floor..
