The confidential information I was given regarding the shooting of Sheila in the kitchen, was that she was shot during a struggle with PS Woodcock, as he entered the kitchen via the opening edge of the internal door which Neville Bamber was originally sat behind on one chair, propped up by the other! Of course it must have taken quite a bit of pushing by the police officers on the other side of 'that' door in order to topple Neville's body forward! Sheila supposedly grabbed the barrel of the Ruger 14 mini as Woodcock came into the kitchen around the opening g edge of 'that' door, and as the struggle spilled further afield into the kitchen itself, Sheila was supposed to have pulled the barrel of PS Woodcock's rifle in toward her own neck! This was why by 7.45am, the police were talking in terms of her death downstairs in the kitchen, as a suicide!
I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of my source, he had no reason to lie, if the truth be known, there'd be nothing better if and when the truth breaks, because he didn't agree with the cover up surrounding the circumstances of Sheila's death at the scene! He is adamant that it was the trigger finger of PS Woodcock which fired the original bullet into Sheila Caffell's neck! My understanding is that police quite often used the Ruger mini 14 to shoot dead animals that were a danger to themselves and to members of the public, in other words cops were using this type of weapon in vermin control incidents! This was very interesting to me, because out of the 25 shots fired during the tragedy, only one bullet fragmented so badly upon entry and that was the bullet received by Sheila in her neck, when she was downstairs in the kitchen! That original bullet (PV/20) fragmented as soon as it touched the surface of Sheila Caffell's neck! None of the other 24 bullets fired had this characteristic! This is why I totally believe in what my source has been telling me, since the bullets that police normally fired via the mini Ruger 14's they were using to shoot dangerous animals, or vermin, and pests, were designed to fragment upon impact, unlike the .22 LR Eley subsonic hollow points which were invariably used in the shootings which ordinarily did not fragment so much as the .22 police issue round...
For what it's worth, the information I was given was that PS Woodcock had intended to shoot the dog which was barking as soon as he got into the kitchen! Cops knew that a dog had been barking, and they were also aware of Sheila Mimicking the barking dog, every time the police yelled out instructions to the occupants of the farmhouse via loud hailer to give themselves up, and to come out of the farmhouse! At one stage, the police engaged in a remarkable conversation with someone inside the farmhouse, who they thought was Sheila at around 5.25am...
It wasn't any ordinary sort of a conversation by anybodies standards, infact, it was basically a one sided conversation in the queen's English, and barked responses to what the police were instructing that person to do! One bark for yes, two consecutive barks for no..
Not surprisingly, most of the requests by the police via loud hailer were met by two consecutive barks!
By 5.55am...
The police outside the farmhouse, had requested that the person making the barks should go to the telephone and dial 999 so that police could have a proper conversation with them! Rather somewhat astonishingly, at this suggestion the person they were engaged in conversation with from inside the farmhouse, barked only once!
Even more remarkable, was the fact that the phone which had been off the hook until 'that' time (5.55am) suddenly and rather mysteriously became engaged so that the police back in the control room at Chelmsford could no longer eavesdrop automatically, so they requested that the operator somehow if at all possible, break into the call being made from inside the farmhouse and patch it through to the police in the control room?
This was achieved at 6.09am...
At this time, there was another rather bizarre conversation which took place between Sheila (it was believed at the time to have been Sheila), and PC Mills! For example, he was putting requests and questions to the person on the line, which were continuing to be responded to in the same dog barking fashion, previously! One bark for yes, two barks for no...
As a result of this painstaking procedure, PC Mills managed to establish that members of the family had already been shot, and he told the recipient on the other end of the phone, that he was sending ambulances to the scene (this took place at around 6.15am), and in response to PC Mills suggestion, Sheila is known to have yelped a singular bark! By 7am, the two ambulances and their staff arrived at the scene, one was supposed to go directly to the farmhouse to tend to the wounded, whilst the other was to be on standby parked up ready in nearby Pages Lane...
But...
There was a problem when Sheila moved away from the telephone, this came about after another request for the occupants to give themselves up, to show the weapons at a window, so that police could see that no-one was armed inside, or able to shoot anyone, when the paramedics went in! As things turned out, Sheila had left the telephone without any warning and gone upstairs and placed the family owned Anshuzt rifle at the first floor box room window! However, because police knew that there was a whole armoury of different types of firearms and ammunition in the farmhouse, they decided to send the raid team in, and keep the paramedics back!
These are the details of the seige which I have been privy to learning about, a conversation with Sheila who was as alive as you or me, inside the farmhouse, choosing to communicate with the police using barking and whining noises! I know that many of you will find it hard to comprehend that there was this exchange between the firearm officers outside the farmhouse and Sheila within, and much later, between PC Mills and Sheila after 6.09am, but those are the true facts, Sheila was alive as stated, the police know she was alive and that Jeremy Bamber did not shoot dead his sister Sheila Caffell either downstairs, or upstairs!
