Thank you for the links Myster. They are both new to me. I shall listen with interest.
I have just used my Amazon Christmas gift card to purchase 4 books on the Bamber case. Are there only four?
I need to read up on the case more before I can start posting anything meaningful. I will have a good dig around in the forum library.
I hadn't realised Mr Bamber suffered burn marks to his back. How did this come about and where is it documented?
Would the gunpowder deposits around Sheila's neck wounds not have occurred then had she have taken her own life? As I said my knowledge of this case is near zero so forgive me if its a crass question but I would have thought it would be the same whether Jeremy shot Sheila or Sheila shot herself? Whatever its oh so sad 
That's a good sensible post, Holly!.. I don't blame you for absorbing as much info as possible before you contribute.
These are the ones I've digested so far... I gave the Scott Lomax one a miss, mainly because it's the only one promoted by the Official Bamber website and he's an active supporter for his release. I don't think there are any more worth reading other than the OOP Marshall Cavendish Murder Casebook Magazine no.7 which is short and lightweight, and has a lot of good photos from the period but is only available on ebay or similar.
No-one knows how the burn marks (which was one of the main grounds of the McKay CCRC submission) came about. His theory was that they were caused by the end of the rifle being heated up by simply firing it, but as you probably saw in the documentary the branding temperature was never achieved this way, and I presume the USA tests produced the same result.
So other theories have been discussed on here, such as heating the end of it or some other metallic object on one of the AGA hotplates, or inserting it in the AGA combustion chamber through the coke filler hole in the left hand hotplate, or the stubbing of a cigar/cigarette on Nevill's back, or at the other extreme, burns caused by farm machinery earlier in the day. Peter Vanezis noted that they were recent - you'll find the comment among his pathology reports.
They could have been inflicted for some vindictive purpose... who knows?
Burn marks to Nevill Bamber's back.
McKay was trying to show that the deposit rings on Sheila's neck were only of a size to have been caused by end of the rifle without the moderator fitted, whereas the prosecution case at the trial was that the moderator was fitted
throughout the murders. If it was fitted, the marks would have been larger around the wounds... this is explained by Philip Boyce, the firearms expert in the film. But again the USA experts clouded the issue by saying more tests would be needed.
So to sum up..., McKay's submission was to prove that if the moderator wasn't fitted, then Sheila's reach would have been sufficient for her to pull the trigger to shoot herself... and the burn marks too, because of their small diameter could only have been inflicted by the rifle end without moderator.
