Problems With The Silencer Evidence: The Chain-of-Custody

[Erik Narramore]

22. Detective Sergeant Stan Jones, key police officer in the Jeremy Bamber Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwwZF3Jyk74

P.C. Woodcock, firearms officer of Essex Police:

"I am not necessarily trained to see a sound moderator"

That's just a ridiculous response.  I don't know where it comes from; it's probably from a COLP interview or statement.  Essex Police don't help themselves.

Why couldn't PC Woodcock have just said: No, sorry, didn't see a sound moderator or the carrier bag [I thought it was a cardboard box] that a prosecution witness subsequently found the moderator in.  Very sorry about that.  I realise somebody on the scene could and should have checked the gun cupboard more thoroughly, and maybe that should have been me.  We really fell down there.  Lessons were learned.  Really, really sorry.

[Erik Narramore]

I must admit, it is strange that in the photograph taken by DC Hammersley in November 1985, the rifle has an exhibit label but the sound moderator doesn't.  Is there a reasonable explanation?  In at least one of the FSS records I have seen, the moderator is drawn with an exhibit label clearly attached to it.