For the attention of HG QC:
No they don't and no he didn't! We've been through this soooooooo many times before ad nauseum. Never in a million harvests would NB have twiddled his thumbs waiting minutes for his son to answer while his daughter was off upstairs mimicking Annie Oakley.
Rediscovered that Mirror audio interview. Ignore the crappy rapper at the end, no idea who he is or why he should keep following me about...
https://soundcloud.com/phil-garlic/tracks
... said Goodnight to everybody, got in my car, drove home. And I guess it was about 10pm by this time. I rang Julie... had a hot drink, I don't-I don't think I had anything to eat and I had a quick bath and watched TV 'till about midnight. At around 3.15/3.30 I was woken up by the phone and I only had one in my house and that was by the kitchen door downstairs. And when I answered it I recognised dad's voice and he said "Please come over... your sister has gone crazy and has the gun" .
The call ended, although, I don't recall specifically hearing the dial tone, but I was still half asleep, I'd only just woken up to hear this, and so I rang dad back 'cause I thought you know I need more information.. what, where, how, you know what do you need me to do, how can I... and I specifically remember getting the engaged tone because I then pressed the last number redial at least twice more and both times got the engaged tone... and that's when I rang the police.
There's no expert evidence showing where NB sustained his upstairs gsw's as such I have filled the void
@ trial:
Ed Lawson (EL): There is no evidence that anyone was shot outside the bedroom, upstairs?
Malcolm Fletcher (MF) : No sir
EL : No forensic or scientific evidence that would be the most likely explanation for where cartridge case DRH/14 ended up __ a gun fired near the bedroom door?
MF : The most likely one yes sir
There's a reason ballistics, biologists, soc officers and pathologists make available information on the following:
- Blood stains/lack of
- Casings
- Distance of shots
- Trajectories
- Wound tracks
It enables a multi-disciplinary team to create a reconstruction. In JB's case we have the blind leading the blind until I threw in my two-penneth! The fact QC's: Ed Lawson and Michael Turner were incapable of rational analysis of the facts doesn't make JB guilty!
We can all speculate about what NB could, should or would have done but the physical evidence at soc tells us he phoned JB from kitchen. Meanwhile SC opened fire on June whilst she was prone with her head on the pillow. NB hearing shots dropped the handset and went upstairs where he sustained his facial gsw's whilst stood on the landing stairs facing into the main bedroom. He turned to retreat downstairs and sustained the 2 gsw's to the rear of his body: shoulder and elbow/chest graze wounds.
I can't now recall the date of the Mirror interview but it was years after trial. I prefer to rely on his early wit stats where he makes no ref to "Please come over...". He states NB said "Sheilas gone crazy shes got the gun".
In his police interviews he states he probably had a cup of coffee or coke and possibly a sandwich. Hmmm and yet he claims he slept like a log? On a coffee/coke? Sounds like someone wanted to stay awake!
