Yes, but there weren't any close ups of that area when the kitchen was first photographed, so what was Mr Sutherst comparing the later photographs to?
Mr Sutherst didn't go to the farm did he? I thought he worked from photographs. Nobody could see such minute flakes of paint - even if they had fallen on the floor.
Sutherst was relying on photographs as he hadn't physically seen the fireplace at WHF.
Initially on crime scene photographs which had been taken by " police photographers " no scratches could be seen.
It was over a month that Sutherst had looked at photo's of the fireplace and had reconstructed the evidence by examining the area and looking for chipped paint on the floor.
Sutherst had ony learned that the fireplace photo's he looked at and which were shown at trial had been taken on the 10th of September.