I have my take on the silencer/SM it is much the same as yours but with a few twists. I will post this as I develop my arguments. Can you say why you believe that the second shot to SC was an accident during training. If that were the case they could have admitted it and fessed up. It made no difference to the outcome and they could have cleared things up more quickly. They could argue that few opportunities presented themselves for real time practice and they had made a stupid mistake for which they were truly sorry. If this were the case why would they need to swap PV20. They were using another rifle to preserve the integrity of the actual weapon.. There would be no need to move bodies around. Something entirely more sinister happened IMO. It has to be more than an accident to warrant the effort expended over the last 36 years.
I see the so called first shot as a deliberate act rather than an operational accident. To me it is more cold and calculating than the accident. It gave EP a chance to weave a story around the death of June. If it was known that she was alive at an earlier time and ended up dead how did it happen?
Here are a few examples the police could have used.
1 She was alive at X O’clock. It looks like she heard a shot and saw SC dead on her bed with a neck wound. She at last felt safe and returned to her bedroom and lay on the bed after placing her rifle by the window. A stunned SC comes round and runs to the main bedroom. She shoots and kills June before laying down by the bed with the bible and kills herself.
2 She was alive at X O’clock. Sheila had left her for dead in the kitchen. She manages to struggle up stairs. She goes to her bedside table and picks up her bible before walking round the bed to the box room When Sheila does not appear she goes to her room where she has fallen asleep.
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ABOVE. She creeps up and shoots her in the neck. Thinking her dead she returns to the box room and waits. SC recovers goes to bedroom and shoots June as 1 above.
Or maybe this She was alive at X O’clock. Sheila had left her for dead in the kitchen. She manages to struggle up stairs. She goes to her bedside table and picks up her bible before walking round the bed to the box room. She hears someone say one dead female and she exits the box room to be shot by the TFG.
The extra shot affords the police a reason for the manner of Junes death even if they did not know if she was alive in the first instance. If she had a much later TOD than NB and the twins because they had been the first to die. Even without forensic methods, if there had been say 4 hours elapsed between the deaths the differences in RM of the victims would suggest June’s survival. In these circumstances people would wonder how she had survived for so much longer than the others but ended up dead in the final analysis.
Of course this would also mean Taff new JB was innocent by the later deaths of SC and June.
They had to have a plausible narrative to explain her death. Remember this was happening before PV was contacted etc...
