Jeremy told me in great detail about the occasion when Jones and Jones came to see him at his cottage on the afternoon of 9th August 1985, and one of the things which puzzled me at the time was that they asked him specifically if he knew where exactly 5 additional bullets that were used in the shootings originated from? This has always nagged at me for the best part of 3 decades!
I remember Jeremy saying to them in response to being told that a total of 25 shots had been fired during the tragedy, but that there were only 30 bullets remaining in the box found in the kitchen, with 20 missing, that they must have been bullets already in the guns ammunition magazine prior to him having gone to the cupboard under the stairs in the den to get a new box of 50 Eley .22 LR subsonic Hollow point bullets, which he said had got celothane wrapper around it (he said he removed the wrapping from the box once he got to the kitchen), and proceeded to load bullets from the box into the magazine until it felt like it was full, or as near as damn it, full..
I asked him where he was stood at the time he was loading the gun, and he said at the worktop where the phone is, he said he had his back to his parents and Sheila who were sat around the supper table discussing Sheila's inability to be able to look after her two boys alone, etc, etc, etc...
I have always been a little bit suspicious about those additional 5 bullets that Jones and Jones brought up with Jeremy, there was something not quite right about what all parties had to say regarding them on that occasion!
For a start and dealing with my take on what Jeremy had to say in response to what Jones and Jones put to him, I can't understand why he would have needed to load up the magazine of the rifle, with 4 or 5 more additional live rounds from a new box full of 50 rounds, if there was already 5 live rounds inside the magazine? How many rabbits had he seen in the vicinity of the barn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or maybe even 9?
If he'd only seen 1 rabbit in the vicinity of the barn on his way into the farmhouse from parking up tractor and trailer, why would he have needed, 8, 9, or even 10 bullets to deal with it?
Surely, Jeremy would have known if there were already bullets loaded up in the gun, at the time he loaded additional bullets into the magazine of the same gun (that's my point)! I do not believe that what Jones and Jones said about those additional 5 bullets, and I do not for one moment accept that what Jeremy says he said to them is true at all..
'I don't think there were any bullets already in the guns ammunition magazine when he (Jeremy) loaded up the gun himself in the kitchen' - it seems to me to have been too convenient for Jones and Jones to raise the matter in the manner that they did, and just as convenient for Jeremy to answer in the way he did answer them back...
I believe that those additional 5 bullets, were not only fired from the second rifle used in this shooting tragedy, but that there existed 5 spent cartridge cases with double magazine markings on them (whereas, the other 20 only had one set of such markings on each of them)! However, there still remains a rather intriguingly small detail concerning those 5 spent cartridge cases that had these double magazine markings upon them..
Jones and Jones knew that 5 of the bullets originated from a different batch of .22 LR ammunition, other than any ammunition purchased or owned by the Bambers...
Anthony Pargeter owned such different types of .22 LR bullets, produced by a different ammunition manufacturers, other than Eley , which were known to be kept in storage at the farmhouse, along with his .22 bolt action rifle, silencer, and his shotguns, which were all normally kept in the downstairs toilet...
