Studio Legale Internazionale

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Two different silencers were at the heart of the investigation into the five deaths at whf, on 7 August 1985...

(1) a silencer bearing the original identifying mark of SBJ/1 (22), which later became referred to by a different identifying mark of DRB/1 (22)...

(2) a silencer bearing the identifying mark of DB/1 (23)...

Silencer (2), above, was the silencer which the relatives found in the gun cupboard at whf, on 10 August 1985. It was handed to the police (DS Jones) on 12 August 1985 by Peter Eaton. This silencer is understood to have been kept on the desk of DCI "Taff" Jones, in his office at Witham police station, until it was sent to the Lab' to be examined on 30 August 1985...

Silencer (1), above, was a silencer which DS Jones found at the scene on the morning of 7 August 1985, along with three other exhibits, marked, SBJ/2, SBJ/3, and SBJ/4. This silencer was submitted to the lab' for examination on 13 August 1985, and it was handed back to DI Cook (SOC) the same day, so that he could fingerprint it. He fingerprinted this silencer by way of oblique light test on 15 August 1985, and by superglue treatment on 23 August 1985. Furthermore, on 29 August 1985, he dismantled the silencer by removing its end cap, top washer, and the 17 internalized baffle plates, before rebuilding it. This silencer was subsequently handed back to the family. Whilst it was back in the possession of the family, David Boutflour used a razor blade to scrape a small flake of dried blood from the end cap of the silencer which he retained because he says it fascinated him? Essex police found out that Boutflour had scraped the flake from the silencer and they took possession of the flake, and the silencer. These were handed over to the police by Ann Eaton, on 11 September 1985. Once the silencer was handed back to the police, it became treated as a different silencer, and was given the identifying mark of DRB/1 (22). This silencer was fingerprinted again, by DS Eastwood and DS Davidson (SOC) on 13 September 1985, and submitted to the lab' to be checked for blood and fibers from one of Sheila's tampons, on 26 September 1985...

According to the evidence, a flake was found trapped between baffles 1 and 2, of the silencer which the police had submitted to the lab' on 30 August 1985, which was analyzed by blood expert, John Hayward, and found to produce four blood group results, A, EAP BA, AK1 and HP 2-1, which he attributed as belonging exclusively to Sheila Caffell?

There is good reason to believe that this flake was not found inside a silencer at all, but rather that it was the flake which David Boutflour had scraped from the silencers end cap by use of a razor blade, which he subsequently handed to the police...

This flake has been wrongly attributed to a silencer (DRB/1) which was not present at the Lab' on the occasion it was supposed to have been found inside it, since, silencer (2) was present at the Lab' from 30 August 1985, onward, not silencer (1) which did not get submitted to the Lab' until 26 September 1985...