I have always thought SC's 'found' position as per soc images doesn't look right ie it looks to me that SC was moved. Question is by whom? JB or EP? I have always thought EP raid team moved SC as she was blocking the entrance to the box room and the raid team in its haste to make safe the property wanted to establish what was behind the door. There is some support for this by way of WS's from PC's Collins, Delgado and A/PS Woodcock in that their WS's slightly contradict as to where they went after identifying June and SC in the main bedroom. PC's Collins and Delgado state they entered the box room to search it and A/PS Woodcock states they left the main bedroom and went across to SC's bedroom. A handwritten note exists where officers state SC's position and the bible looked different from how they initially viewed the soc.
The pathologist said the second gsw was immediately fatal and would result in SC's head falling backwards. To my mind this would mean her head would end up wedged against NB's bedside cabinet and yet in the soc images it is to the left of NB's bedside cabinet on the carpet. Dr Vanezis trial testimony attached where he states based on the blood staining and wounds SC was partially sitting up, maybe on her left side and having sustained the second gsw would immediately fall backwards. Prof Knight for the defence at trial said similar.
At the 2002 appeal hearing the prosecution called for fresh evidence in this regard. The appeal court judges heard the evidence but said they would not allow it in any event as it was something that could have been adjudicated on at trial:
518. To decide whether we considered that the interests of justice required that we heard Mr Ismail's evidence, we first had regard to the evidence that it was said that he could give. From the blood staining he concluded that following the second and fatal shot Sheila Caffell was lying almost flat on her back with her head propped against a bedside cabinet. For her then to slide to be found in the position depicted in the photographs would have required the downward force to be greater than the friction of her body against the floor. In his opinion this simply was not possible as there would only be the weight of the head providing the downward force. Therefore he concluded that an additional force would have been necessary. It could not have come from Sheila Caffell since the second shot would have been instantly fatal and thus she must have been moved by someone else, for example with her legs being pulled. He also considered that the weight and the friction between her skin and her nightdress was likely to have been less than the weight and friction between the nightdress and the carpet. Therefore, he would expect movement of the body within the nightdress rather than the body and clothing sliding together across the carpet. He pointed out that the photographs demonstrated this effect at the back of the nightdress with the nightdress staying rucked up in its original position. However the front of the nightdress had not demonstrated this effect. Accordingly Mr Ismail concluded that the nightdress had been pulled down after Sheila Caffell slid into her final position. Since on the evidence, she was dead by this stage, Mr Ismail concluded that some one else had arranged her nightdress.
I think Mr Ismail is probably correct with the above. Question is who moved SC: EP or JB? Imo EP.
This again shows how inept the experts and lawyers were at JB's trial in that this aspect of the case was overlooked. Maybe the prosecution didn't pursue this knowing it was involved in disturbing the soc.
It also once again shows how inept MT QC was at JB's 2002 hearing in that he made a meal out of disturbance of soc in the kitchen but completely overlooked the disturbance of soc in the bedroom ie SC's body. I have no real idea whether or not the soc was disturbed in the kitchen but even if it was I don't see how it precludes SC or JB? Whereas SC clearly could not have moved herself after the second gsw so either EP moved her or JB did.
