Myster's post in reply to Holly:
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=10388.msg507825#msg507825Re: Who killed Bambi ?
« Reply #174 on: December 20, 2018, 07:03:36 PM »
Quote from: Holly Goodhead on December 20, 2018, 06:39:39 PM
Which was no doubt referred to as the gun ie "Sheilas gone crazy shes got the gun"
I'm not aware JB had a zeroing-in session with AP?
No the open sights aka iron sights which are built into the rifle at manufacturing are perfectly good for shooting vermin at a wide range of distances. JB was a marksman and no doubt when in the cadets/at Greshams/as a boy on the farm learned to shoot with open sights.
The fact a telescopic sight was fitted when purchased in Nov '84 and AP claimed it was fitted last weekend of July '85 isn't evidence it was routinely used. Probably the only reliable source to confirm one way or the other would be NB. Others who may have known are Jean Boutell the housekeeper and farm worker Len Foakes both of whom were regulars at WHF unlike AP.
AP was wrong about scars to JB's hand so it could be argued he was an unreliable witness
Sorry... AP's Anschutz wasn't new I don't think, only JB's. But they had a session in the barn with a block of wood or something and AP said his own wasn't shooting accurately. So JB fired a few rounds with it and found it was OK. In Wilkes, probably.
Anthony Pargeter, Nevill Bamber's nephew and a competition standard shot, stayed at White House Farm between 26-28 July 1985. He saw the .22 rifle in the gun cupboard in the ground floor office. The telescopic sights and sound moderator were attached and the gun appeared in a "new" condition. There were no scratches or marks upon it. Later the appellant, himself a good shot, took the rifle out for some target practice.
Why an unreliable witness? He noticed JB's Anschutz in the cupboard as above.
The rifle was a .22 Anshutz automatic rifle. Together with a Parker Hale sound moderator (silencer) and telescopic sights, it had been bought by Nevill Bamber on 30 November 1984. 500 rounds of ammunition had also been purchased. There was evidence that the gun was used to shoot rabbits and would only ever be used with the sound moderator and the telescopic sights attached. A screwdriver was required to remove the telescopic sights but there was evidence that this was not normally done because of the time it took to realign them