Robert Boutflour seized on the information he learned about the find of a silencer by the police on the morning of the shootings, and he built his theory about Jeremy using a silencer on the gun when he carried out the shootings, based on that information. The original silencer (SBJ/1) found by the police on 7th August 1985, caused the relatives to believe that it had been handed back to the scene by the police, prior to the keys being handed back to the family, on the evening of 9th August 1985? Linked to this, is the fact that on the afternoon of the 9th August 1985, DCI "taff" Jones, and DS "Stan" Jones, visited Jeremy Bamber at his cottage at 9 Head Street, Goldhanger, Essex, and spoke to him about the rifle and the silencer. In particular, they asked him if the rifle had got the silencer fitted to its barrel on the evening prior to the shootings which Jeremy had handled before leaving whf and going home to his cottage on evening 6th August 1985? He told them,"No"...
Although DCI "Taff" Jones has since died, DS "Stan" Jones has confirmed in a witness statement that the police did speak to Jeremy about the silencer on the afternoon of 9th August 1985...
So, the police knew about the silencer, a silencer, the day before the relatives claim to have found one in the gun cupboard. Why did the police take an interest in one of these silencers on the day of the shootings, which they drew Jeremy's attention to on the afternoon of 9th August 1985, the day before the relatives brought the second silencer into the equation? I have received intelligence that Robert Boutflour was told by sources already mentioned that the police actually shot Sheila upon entering the kitchen - he was told that this came about involving a rifle with a silencer fitted to the end of its barrel. He was told that there was a struggle between a police officer and Sheila and that it resulted in her getting shot in the right side of the neck by the police. The angle of the shot and the dimension of the gun with silencer fitted prevented an opportunity for Sheila to have shot herself in the neck at that time, and so with Sheila on the kitchen floor presumed dead, police removed the silencer from the guns barrel (which was later seized by DS Jones). Police thought she was dead, and left her body unattended downstairs whilst they proceeded to carry out a search of other parts of the farmhouse, and upstairs. She had not died but found her way upstairs to the bedroom and collapsed on the bed. This took place before the training exercise took place at around 8:30am to 9am. By this stage, police officers engaged in the training exercise had moved the body and repositioned the rifle (minus a silencer) atop the body, and that no-one had checked to see if the rifle being used was loaded with bullets or safe? It was during the stage managing of Sheila's body and the repositioning of the rifle atop her body that the gun went off and Sheila got shot under the chin. It was not until that moment that the police realized that Sheila was not dead, but had been killed by the second discharge of a gun...
The key feature which Robert Boutflour found out relating to the shooting of Sheila was that a silencer was used when she was first shot downstairs, but that there was no silencer fitted to the gun that fired the fatal shot under the chin? Boutflour found out that the police had removed a silencer from one guns barrel, and that there was no silencer fitted to the gun which killed her because police had removed it, and it had been seized by DS "Stan" Jones at the scene along with three other exhibits (SBJ/2, SBJ/3 and SBJ/4). Boutflour was confident that he could make fellow mason ACC Peter Simpson instigate an investigation into trying to put Jeremy in the frame for the murders, because of the fact that police had removed a silencer from one rifle, and had seized a metal end cap from the other. Police have kept the location where the metal end cap was found secret, because they wanted to leave it open to argue if necessary that the silencer taken into possession by DS Jones (SBJ/1) on 7th August 1985, had also been fitted to the barrel of the rifle which fired the fatal shot, but it had not...
Boutflour found out that this was the reason why the original fragmented bullet (PV/20) was substituted and replaced by a test fired whole bullet. He knew this was important because the fragmented bullet had become damaged as a result of having been fired through a misaligned silencer, which was not reproduced on the fatal bullet that killed her. Boutflour knew this was the reason why police swapped over one of the bullets, because if they had been left as they were, it would have been crystal clear that both bullets had not been fired through a damaged silencer, becaue only one of the two bullets |(PV/20) was fragmented...
With this in mind, persuading ACC Simpson to start a new investigation trying to put Jeremy in the frame was a piece of cake...
