Nevill's Premonition?

[Patti]

Hi Patti better to be a parrot than a budgie like me twittering on and everyone ignoring me.

Squeak, Squeak! lol 

[Steve_uk]

I don't know the answers to these questions. Did a forensic pathologist come up with any ideas on the burn marks? As for Sheila's fingerprint,maybe Jeremy placed her finger there after the first shot.

[Patti]

I don't know the answers to these questions. Did a forensic pathologist come up with any ideas on the burn marks? As for Sheila's fingerprint,maybe Jeremy placed her finger there after the first shot.

Or maybe she actually held the rifle Steve? If he was going to plant her fingerprints on the rifle butt he would have made sure they were all over the place....surely? not just one solitary fingerprint.  You witness the photo with her all her right fingers on the rifle, but they were never found...I'd love to know why this is....

[Lugg]

Hi Patti better to be a parrot than a budgie like me twittering on and everyone ignoring me.

Doctor doctor I get the feeling everyone is ignoring me.. Next patient please.

[campion]

  Susan I can empathise with you being a sweet lickle budgie, as long as you don't fall off your rod, POLE, or perch.

[ngb1066]

These marks do need explaining and I've read that they have been impossible to duplicate just by heating a rifle in an Aga. Was it in Andrew Hunter's book draft..not sure.

Not true Steve_UK.  In fact the opposite is true.  It is probable that the burns were caused by the application of the end of the rifle barrel, without either the end cap or silencer fitted, having been heated in the Aga.

[andrea]

Is it certain those marks were caused by the rifle being heated on the aga?
Am i right in thinking that the rifle didnt reach the temperature required by being fired ?

[ngb1066]

Is it certain those marks were caused by the rifle being heated on the aga?
Am i right in thinking that the rifle didnt reach the temperature required by being fired ?

It is not certain, but it is probable.  The rifle barrel would not reach the required temerature (approximately 200 degrees C.) simply by being fired, some additional heat source was necessary.

[andrea]

So, experts think that the rifle or silencer was heated in the Aga, then Nevile "branded" for want of a better word? Those marks were caused on the night of his death, for sure?

[Bridget]

It is not certain, but it is probable.  The rifle barrel would not reach the required temerature (approximately 200 degrees C.) simply by being fired, some additional heat source was necessary.

What makes it probable, rather than just possible?

[andrea]

Hallo Bridget 

[Bridget]

Hallo Bridget 

Hi Andi, long time no see!

[andrea]

Hi Andi, long time no see!

Im busy, busy, busy!

[ngb1066]

What makes it probable, rather than just possible?

The expert examination of the photographs of the burns, in the light of the tests carried out in Arizona in January this year.

[ngb1066]

1. So, experts think that the rifle or silencer was heated in the Aga, then Nevile "branded" for want of a better word? 2. Those marks were caused on the night of his death, for sure?

1. Yes - for what reason we can only guess.  Some have suggested a religeous significance.  My personal view is that it was in order to check if Nevill was dead.

2. Almost certainly - the first of the burns in particular is quite nasty and would have required treatment.